sully

Despite being explicitly prevented from blaming any party for a death, hearings can often descend into a blame game, with barristers trying to save or sully an organisation's reputation.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

But cars—even electric cars—also sully our planet in other ways, like the constant rubbing of tires against pavement.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023

I thought of the grand preparations, the hours of ladies in beauty parlors, the hundreds of thousands of new and delicate ball gowns, the spike-heeled satin shoes a passing out might sully.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

"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

The first that has been shed in this war," replied the King, gravely, "sullies your pure hand.

From The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn

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

Sweeping ocean views are sullied by hollow shells of graffiti-tagged homes and miles of chain-link fencing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

Maria Isabel is enraged; they are sullying one of the few things she has—her honor.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario