Main entry: Sully, Duc de Sully, Maxmilien de Bethune
Definition: French statesman (1560-1641)
Main entry: Sully, Thomas Sully
Definition: United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)
Main entry: sully, defame, denigrate, calumniate, besmirch, asperse, slander, smear, smirch
Definition: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
Usage: The journalists have defamed me! The article in the paper sullied my reputation
Main entry: maculate, tarnish, sully, defile, stain
Definition: make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
Usage: The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air; Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man
Main entry: corrupt, defile, sully, taint, cloud
Definition: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
Usage: sully someone's reputation