Noun
French statesman (1560-1641)

Noun
United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)

Verb
charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"

Verb
make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"

Verb
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone''s reputation"

v. t.
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.

v. i.
To become soiled or tarnished.

n.
Soil; tarnish; stain.

Sully

Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke.

No spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity.

Sully

Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.

Sully

A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies in his reputation.

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.

To become soiled or tarnished.

Soil; tarnish; stain.