Contact and joining

Synonyms for sully

The synonym for sully recorded in this bank is cloud, in the sense "place under suspicion or cast doubt upon". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb

The synonym for sully

cloudverb, in the sense "place under suspicion or cast doubt upon"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day sully is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineContact and joining

place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

Sully someone's reputation.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

cloud

Same sentence, swapped: Cloud someone's reputation.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where sully stands in the sentence above.

slander
disfigure
violate

Where sully turns up in the game

sully is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play sully

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sully reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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