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unsullies

unsullies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unsully.

Meaning of unsully

Verb

unsully (third-person singular simple present unsullies, present participle unsullying, simple past and past participle unsullied)

  1. (transitive) To make clean (something formerly sullied).
    • The footage of the interviews available at the Museum of Television and Radio includes the commercials, many of which have the strange subliminal effect of reminding us that we are watching a man try to unsully himself.2007 April 26, Ginia Bellafante, “The Medium, the Message, the Drama of TV’s Q & A”, in New York Times

Questions about unsullies

What is unsullies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unsullies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unsully.

Words near unsullies in the dictionary

  1. unsullen
  2. unsulliable
  3. unsullied
  4. unsulliedly
  5. unsulliedness
  6. unsullies
  7. unsully
  8. unsullying
  9. unsulphated
  10. unsulphonated
  11. unsulphureous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsullies (page history and authors); unsully (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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