What's the difference between sullied and tainted?

Sullied


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Sully

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maréchal-Le Pen, who was six months old at the time of the attack, said her grandfather's name was wrongly sullied in Carpentras and never "publicly cleansed", that her election would be "a wink at history".
  • (2) His Glasgow adventure was ultimately sullied by bad results and bad relations with several players - the very same problems that have beset Lacombe at PSG.
  • (3) Those two incidents alone have landed Suárez with suspensions totalling 18 games but the Uruguayan claims it is the press who have sullied his image.
  • (4) Ben Summerskill, chief executive of the gay rights organisation Stonewall, said: "We do think it's very sad that an archbishop should sully the day of the birth of Jesus by making what seem to be such uncharitable observations about other people.
  • (5) He later thanked those who had stood by him during the attempts to "sully" his reputation.
  • (6) Beset by problems and sullied by corruption allegations, Sepp Blatter will stand next week before his dysfunctional "Fifa family", ahead of the World Cup, and announce plans to stand for election as president of football's world governing body for four more years.
  • (7) It'll be pretty amazing if Barça keep a clean sheet here even without Ronaldo trying to sully them.
  • (8) And to help promote this thoroughly anti-democratic measure, the junta has enlisted the judiciary, sullying the very bedrock of democracy.” The prospect of Prayuth’s dictatorial rule being extended indefinitely is not one that is welcomed in Washington.
  • (9) The biggest technology companies don't sully themselves with creating content: Google generates none (except Street View); nor does Microsoft , or Facebook, or Twitter.
  • (10) Saturday's The violence is yet another chapter in an ongoing, years-long battle between those who support Thaksin, a former telecoms tycoon who won voting support from northern and northeastern provinces for his populist policies such as universal healthcare and rice-subsidy schemes, and those who believe him to be nothing more than a corrupt businessman who sullied Thailand's politics.
  • (11) With at least one federal investigation under way and mounting calls for reform on all sides, Escalante is in the unenviable position of keeping clean in a system that appears more sullied each day.
  • (12) The charge sheet was stunning: "He has corrupted his hands and sullied his government with bribes," declaimed Burke in his opening speech to the hearing.
  • (13) "I think this film should not go out; it was too sullied," Kechiche told Telerama, adding that the allegations against him had left him feeling "humiliated, disgraced.
  • (14) Avatar 2, 3 and 4 will also feature returning stars Sam Worthington, as disabled soldier turned swashbuckling Na'avi rebel Jake Sully, and Zoe Saldana as his alien paramour Neytiri.
  • (15) And above all of us, night and day, in weather fair or foul, with its plume of driven snow streaming tremendously from its summit, the great mountain itself looked down on us benignly – for not a soul was lost, nor a reputation sullied, on that happiest of adventures.
  • (16) To wallow in it would be fun but sullying, and also obscures the fact that Simmonds has done us a favour.
  • (17) 88 min: Barcelona stroke the ball around the edge of the Inter penalty, before Dani Alves goes down under a challenge from Sully Muntari while trying to run on to a through-ball from Messi.
  • (18) It is of grave concern to see its reputation sullied before the facts are known."
  • (19) Williamson said: “Construction firms’ optimism in relation to the outlook fell to the lowest for nearly a year in September, sullied by concerns over a slowing housing market, shortages of both skilled labour and suitable subcontractors, higher interest rates and a general weakening of growth in the wider economy.” He said the 0.9% growth in GDP achieved in the second quarter could be the peak.
  • (20) Inside Sully’s, a popular bar across from the Carrier plant, David Parliament, a Carrier worker for three decades, said he favored Trump over Clinton because “he’s not a politician, he’s a businessman”.

Tainted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Taint

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While ruling that there had been improper use of Schedule 7 powers, the judge commented: "It was clear that the Security Service, for entirely understandable reasons, was anxious if possible to get information which could not be regarded as tainted by torture allegations or which might confirm the propriety of a control order."
  • (2) But it has a tainted reputation: the 2007 foot and mouth outbreak was traced to a leak from Pirbright’s drains.
  • (3) Those wrongdoings taint a whole industry beyond the handful of people and that makes it a huge problem."
  • (4) One half hour following the ingestion of a possibly tainted antibiotic capsule, a 14 year-old female experienced acute onset of stiffness and weakness in her lower extremities.
  • (5) It might smell close to pot, he said, but would be “tainted” because of all the other items and plants like poison oak burning along with it.
  • (6) Attorneys for the family of Rice, who was killed by police officer Timothy Loehmann while holding a pellet gun in a park in Cleveland in November last year, said the pair of external reports had “tainted the grand jury process” that is considering criminal charges against Loehmann.
  • (7) A simple, cheap and rapid method for the quantitative determination of the boar taint substance, 5 alpha-androst-16-en-3-one, in pig adipose tissue is described.
  • (8) The scale scores the constitutional taints, the extent of the operation, the age, the eventual emergency, the special anaesthetic risk.
  • (9) The second is that almost eight years after voting in the conclave that chose Benedict XVI, Cardinal Keith O'Brien seems too irredeemably tainted by scandal and allegations of hypocrisy to find himself electing any future popes.
  • (10) Part of the difficulty in making the case may be that the euro has translated into brutal austerity on parts of the continent’s south, tainting the EU’s claims to be a levelling force.
  • (11) County prosecutors may have to review hundreds of current and past convictions involving the officers to determine if their contribution to such cases was tainted by racial bias.
  • (12) Police and social workers in Oxfordshire had a tainted perception that girls as young as 11 consented to sex with men who raped and brutalised them, an independent report into the failure to stop their exploitation has said.
  • (13) This can contribute to mitigating the dangerously polarising and alarmist discourse that views migrants as a threat to a society and its public order.” The senior European human rights official says he is worried that this “dominant political discourse which is tainted by alarmism” has led to the unsurprising outcome that the public consider immigration as the most important issue facing the country ahead of health, crime or the economy.
  • (14) … Like that in any way mitigates what was done to him.” Sharpton said police tried to taint Garner’s image after his death by quickly releasing his arrest record.
  • (15) However, the Portuguese does not believe that all Chelsea supporters should be tainted by the incident.
  • (16) Thiophenol and thiocresol which sporadically cause offensive sulfury taints in Wisconsin River fish were also found in river sediment.
  • (17) Hamid Karzai, who was then president, eventually forced the Americans out of Nerkh, but the lack of justice continues to taint residents’ view of his successor.
  • (18) The big society strikes me as a political construct, a tainted venture.
  • (19) Sanlu, the firm at the heart of the problems, knew the milk was tainted months before it told local officials.
  • (20) Blood supplies were eventually tainted out of this failure to take constructive action, with the resultant mass infection of segments of the Brazilian population.