soil+tarnish
31spot — I. n. 1. Speck, blot, mark, speckle. 2. Blemish, stain, taint, flaw. 3. Disgrace, reproach, fault, blemish, flaw. 4. Place, locality, site. II. v. a. 1. Make spots on, dapple, variegate. 2. Stain, sully, soil …
32blemish — I. v. a. 1. Stain, sully, blur, spot, tarnish, mar, injure, taint. 2. Defame, vilify, traduce, asperse, calumniate, slander, malign, revile, run down, speak ill of. See abuse. II. n. 1. Stain, spot, defect, speck, blot, blur, soil, tarnish, flaw …
33blur — I. n. 1. Blot, stain, spot, blemish, soil, tarnish, defect. 2. Confusion (of vision), dim and uncertain spot, confused glimmer. 3. Blot, stain, disgrace, spot, blemish, blotch. II. v. a. 1. Obscure, darken, dim, bedim, partially erase. 2. Tarnish …
34Sullies — Sully Sul ly, n.; pl. {Sullies}. Soil; tarnish; stain. [1913 Webster] A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies in his reputation. Spectator. [1913 Webster] …
35Sully — Sul ly, n.; pl. {Sullies}. Soil; tarnish; stain. [1913 Webster] A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies in his reputation. Spectator. [1913 Webster] …
36spot — spotlike, adj. spottable, adj. /spot/, n., v., spotted, spotting, adj. n. 1. a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck. 2. something that mars one s character or reputation; blemish; flaw. 3 …
37sullied — sul·ly || sÊŒlɪ v. dirty, soil, tarnish; taint, defile, disgrace …
38sullies — sul·ly || sÊŒlɪ v. dirty, soil, tarnish; taint, defile, disgrace …
39sully — sul·ly || sÊŒlɪ v. dirty, soil, tarnish; taint, defile, disgrace …
40sullying — sul·ly || sÊŒlɪ v. dirty, soil, tarnish; taint, defile, disgrace …
