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sully
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sully \Sul"ly\, v. i. To become soiled or tarnished.
Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.
--Bacon.
Sully \Sul"ly\, n.; pl. Sullies. Soil; tarnish; stain.
A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little
spots and sullies in his reputation.
--Spectator.
Sully \Sul"ly\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sullied; p. pr. & vb. n. Sullying.] [OE. sulien, AS. sylian, fr. sol mire; akin to G. suhle mire, sich, s["u]hlen to wallow, Sw. s["o]la to bemire, Dan. s["o]le, Goth. bisaulijan to defile.] To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.
Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke.
--Roscommon.
No spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity.
--Atterbury.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, probably from Middle French souiller "to soil," also figurative, from Old French soillier "make dirty" (see soil (v.)). Related: Sullied (1570s); sullying.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) to soil or stain; to dirty 2 (context transitive English) to damage or corrupt 3 (context intransitive English) To become soiled or tarnished.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 360
Land area (2000): 0.520573 sq. miles (1.348277 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.520573 sq. miles (1.348277 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76035
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.578638 N, 92.845441 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50251
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sully
Housing Units (2000): 844
Land area (2000): 1006.899280 sq. miles (2607.857052 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 63.460182 sq. miles (164.361110 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1070.359462 sq. miles (2772.218162 sq. km)
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 44.714843 N, 100.090532 W
Headwords:
Sully, SD
Sully County
Sully County, SD
Wikipedia
Sully can refer to:
- Redirect Sully, Calvados
Sully was a Canadian indie rock group formed in 1994 in Ottawa. The band released a self-titled album independently in 1995. After releasing "I Have Much to Report" through Toronto independent label Random Sound in 1997, Sully signed to Nettwerk Records. "I Have Much to Report" was re-released by Nettwerk in 1998. Sully was showcased on Nettwerk Record's Plastic Compilation (Vol. 1) 1 which also included artists such as Sarah McLachlan, Chemical Brothers, and Propellorheads. Sully was featured in numerous North American publications (Alternative Press, Rolling Stone, Option, Chicago Tribune, Ottawa Xpress, NOW Magazine, and many more) with favorable reviews. Sully played shows across the U.S. and Canada, and "I Have Much to Report" remained in the top 5 position on the College Charts for several weeks.
Sully was eventually dropped by Nettwerk Records and went on to release its third album "Bright Lights" independently in 2001.
Sully's music found placement in a variety of films such as Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (CBC film, 1998), Ecstasy (film, 1996), Bliss (TV, 2002), Get A Life (TVO, 1999), Drop in (MTV-Canada, fall 2002), and a commercial for Cinematheque (a division of the Toronto International Film Festival,1996). The song Fidget went to No. 1 on the Pop chart on Garageband.com. Sully shot a video for "Half of Once" from "Bright Lights" with a MuchMusic VideoFact grant. Sully was chosen by a panel of industry judges to perform on a broadcast special for CBC (National TV in Canada) called "The Great Canadian Music Dream" in January 2003.
The band's website www.sullyweb.com is currently inactive. In 2001, Sully was reported to be working on a fourth album with Tim Glasgow from Sonic Youth's Murray Street studio. This album was to be released in the fall of 2002, but has never been made available.
Sully is an upcoming 2016 American biographical drama film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood and written by Todd Komarnicki, about the US Airways Flight 1549 and Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, based on the autobiography Highest Duty by Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow. The film stars Tom Hanks as Sullenberger, with Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Anna Gunn, Autumn Reeser, Holt McCallany, Jamey Sheridan, and Jerry Ferrara. The film will be released by Warner Bros. in conventional and IMAX theatres on September 9, 2016.
Usage examples of "sully".
Jeanne on her departure from Sully and had been taken at Corbeil, Pierronne of Lower Brittany and her companion, had been confined in ecclesiastical prisons at Paris since the spring.
I was determined not to play any longer as a dupe, but to secure in gambling all the advantages which a prudent young man could obtain without sullying his honour.
Nimisha said, leading the way to where the Fiver had touched down as delicately as a fashionable lady not wishing to sully her footwear on soil.
We climbed into the car, we sullied goods, and Mum and Dad drove stiffly away, grinning at Roly like skeletons.
The House of Norn will sully its proud history by sending snufflers and barnyard animals onto the sand, to be shredded ignominiously by the huge monsters that you have sold the other houses.
Even the tenderness of panegyric, confessing that the glory of the emperor was sullied by the disobedience of his soldiers, chooses to draw a veil over the circumstances of this melancholy retreat.
The most sublime representations of the attributes and laws of the Deity were sullied by an idle mixture of metaphysical subtleties, puerile rites, and fictitious miracles: and they expatiated, with the most fervent zeal, on the religious merit of hating the adversaries, and obeying the ministers of the church.
The triumph of the Romans was indeed sullied by their treatment of the captive king, whom they hung on a gibbet, without the knowledge of their indignant general.
Onulf directed his steps towards Constantinople, where he sullied, by the assassination of a generous benefactor, the fame which he had acquired in arms.
Theodoric might be deceived, his power might be resisted and the declining age of the monarch was sullied with popular hatred and patrician blood.
Two hundred years after the age of Pliny, the use of pure, or even of mixed silks, was confined to the female sex, till the opulent citizens of Rome and the provinces were insensibly familiarized with the example of Elagabalus, the first who, by this effeminate habit, had sullied the dignity of an emperor and a man.
But the fame of Belisarius was not sullied by a defeat, in which he alone had saved his army from the consequences of their own rashness: the approach of peace relieved him from the guard of the eastern frontier, and his conduct in the sedition of Constantinople amply discharged his obligations to the emperor.
Before the end of the siege, an act of blood, ambiguous and indiscreet, sullied the fair fame of Belisarius.
Whatever praise the boldness of the Sclavonians may deserve, it is sullied by the wanton and deliberate cruelty which they are accused of exercising on their prisoners.
In a manly oration, not unworthy of a Roman censor, the eunuch reproved these disorderly vices, which sullied their fame, and endangered their safety.