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1. Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
   "sully someone's reputation";
   - defile, corrupt, taint, cloud
    
2. Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
   "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man";
   - tarnish, stain, maculate, defile
    
3. Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
   "The article in the paper sullied my reputation";
   - defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, besmirch

1. French statesman (1560-1641)
   - Duc de Sully, Maxmilien de Bethune
    
2. United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)
   - Thomas Sully

Derived forms: sullied, sullying, sullies

Type of: accuse, blob, blot, charge, deflower, fleck, impair, mar, national leader, painter, pollute, solon, spoil, spot, statesman, vitiate

Encyclopedia: Sully, Iowa Sully, Maurice de Sully, Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully, IA Sully Sully, Calvados Sully, Glamorgan Sully, Saône-et-Loire Sully, Vale of Glamorgan Sully, Wales Sully, Saone-et-Loire Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully, Oise Sully, Quebec