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Mr. Tom Posted 7 years ago
Vocabulary

Use of sully

Hi

I read it in today's newspaper.

-- in their attempts to sully his image. (tarnish his image)

Would you say that sully is a good, natural choice?

Thanks,

Tom

  

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Mr. Tom Would you say that sully is a good, natural choice? Yes.

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  • Mr.
  • Tom Would you say that sully is a good, natural choice?
  • Yes.
  • It is one of those old-fashioned words that has somehow stayed alive.
  • It is a natural choice in higher-register English in the figurative senses of "soil"—sully his name, sully his reputation, etc.
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Mr. TomWould you say that sully is a good, natural choice?

Yes. It is one of those old-fashioned words that has somehow stayed alive. It is a natural choice in higher-register English in the figurative senses of "soil"—sully his name, sully his reputation, etc. The OED has it in its Frequency Band 4 with "nutshell", "overhang" and "rodeo", so it is n

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