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UNSULLIED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unsullied mean?
• UNSULLIED (adjective)
The adjective UNSULLIED has 2 senses:
1. spotlessly clean and fresh
2. (of reputation) free from blemishes
Familiarity information: UNSULLIED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spotlessly clean and fresh
Context example:
the unsullied snow of mountains
Similar:
clean (free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of reputation) free from blemishes
Synonyms:
stainless; unstained; unsullied; untainted; untarnished
Context example:
an untarnished reputation
Similar:
unblemished; unmarred; unmutilated (free from physical or moral spots or stains)
Context examples
The beginning, however, of every visit displayed none but the properest feelings, and this being of necessity so short might be hoped to pass away in unsullied cordiality.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow creatures were high and unsullied descent united with riches.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
She has spoken about my old family, and our reputation in the county, and our pride in our unsullied honour, and I always felt it was leading to the point, but somehow it turned off before we got there.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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