Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically. Synonyms:defile, stain, sully, tarnish."Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
... The island was so Marian that the folk supposed the Milky Way was a fingerpost to guide pilgrims to the shrine of the Virgin at Walsingham. And one, that is Duns Scotus the champion of the Im- maculate Conception. See ... — Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Now First Published • Gerard Manley Hopkins
... in dumb agony. Colette's foul walls and maculate table-linen, and even down to Colette's villainous casters, seemed like objects in a nightmare. And just then there came a knock and a scurrying; the police, so lamentably absent from the Calton Hill, appeared upon the ... — Tales and Fantasies • Robert Louis Stevenson
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