Synonyms for Sullying:

v.

•dirtying (verb)
Polluting, Muddying, smirching, Streaking, Smudging, Fouling, Putrefying, contaminating, Defiling, staining, Tainting, soiling, dirtying, Befouling.
•disrespecting (verb)
Disesteeming, insulting, disrespecting.
•slandering (verb)
Denouncing, Calumniating, Vilifying, Besmearing, Scandalizing, Stigmatizing, Defaming, Tarnishing, Detracting, Besmirching, Maligning, blackening, denigrating, badmouthing, Smearing, Shaming, Traducing, Slandering, Libeling, Discrediting, Dishonoring, Pillorying.

Usage examples for Sullying

1. A gambler, a profligate, a pirate, he had yet rendered service to the cause of freedom, and his name- sullying the purer and nobler ones of other founders of the commonwealth-" is enrolled in the capitol." – Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete by John Lothrop Motley