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sullies

sullies is the plural of sully.

sullies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sully.

Meaning of sully

Noun

sully (plural sullies)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A blemish.
    • You laying these ſlight ſallies on my ſonne, / As t'were a thing a little ſoyld with working, […]c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604...

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Questions about sullies

What is sullies the plural of?
Sullies is the plural of sully.

Words near sullies in the dictionary

  1. sullens
  2. sulliable
  3. sulliage
  4. sulliages
  5. sullied
  6. sullies
  7. Sulligent
  8. sulling
  9. Sullinger
  10. Sullingers
  11. Sullington

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sullies (page history and authors); sully (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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