sully

Macron almost immediately responded on X: "Shame on those who wanted to sully his memory," he wrote.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025

There are countertop devices that promise to scramble your egg inside the shell, so you never have to sully a whisk again.

From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2025

He feels waiting any longer would just sully his father’s name.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024

“I don’t want to sully it with people who are looking to — I mean, I don’t look at the comments. People tell me, ‘God, they’re just murdering you.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

He noticed it also and very carefully moved away so that my jacket would not sully his.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

"This summit does not dignify anyone, rather, it dirties them, it sullies them. We Latin Americans have to defend ourselves so that they respect us."

From Reuters ● May 19, 2022

Trivializing the suffering of those targeted for extermination by comparing it to modern-day difficulties sullies the memory of the victims.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2022

Since I began working on the history of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, every time crude oil sullies U.S. waters and beaches, I wait for the same sad, misleading official narrative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

No such fluff sullies the lexicon of Burke’s latest character.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2019

He will even claim that a wife’s misconduct sullies his honor; but she never claims that his immorality is her responsibility.

From Almost a Woman by Mary Wood-Allen

Plenty of Kobe Bryant fans began griping online about the Heat’s tactics, which they said sullied a legendary evening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

But he has been tipped to potentially replace Thomas Tuchel as England boss after the World Cup and will not want his reputation sullied by a poor end to the season.

From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026

We will all be watching closely to see whether the event is sullied by New York fans who carry the reputation of being the most partisan of American sporting supporters.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025

It has a history of bad actors who have sullied crypto’s good name by issuing stablecoins that turned out not to be stable.

From Slate ● May 21, 2025

I throwed the other ones and Mr. Taylor’s sullied knife on the ground.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

As far back as the 1930s, during the infamous “Bodyline” tour, English bowlers were accused of sullying the game by aiming balls directly at Australian batsmen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

"Without those answers any sceptical person would be worried that there might be some financial wrongdoing taking place and this would risk sullying the reputation of the Royal family," she added.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025

But Fefferman said this dirt sometimes blows onto his home, coating his solar panels and sullying his pool and koi pond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

The Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène rendered myth a visual map that rescued the African past from the sullying grasp of empire.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

I had a vision of anger spreading through me like a malignant tumor, sullying the best hours of my life and rendering me incapable of tenderness or mercy.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende