The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TAINT , but the solution may also be MAR which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Sully crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| TAINT | 36 % | 5 |
| MAR | 9 % | 3 |
| TARNISH | 7 % | 7 |
| SMEAR | 6 % | 5 |
| STAIN | 6 % | 5 |
| DEFILE | 5 % | 6 |
| SMIRCH | 4 % | 6 |
| SOIL | 4 % | 4 |
| BESMEAR | 4 % | 7 |
| BEFOUL | 4 % | 6 |
| BESMIRCH | 3 % | 8 |
| TAR | 3 % | 3 |
| BLOT | 2 % | 4 |
| BLUR | 1 % | 4 |
| SPOT | 1 % | 4 |
| ASPERSE | 1 % | 7 |
| CONTAMINATE | 1 % | 11 |
| BLEMISH | 1 % | 7 |
| SMUT | 1 % | 4 |
| BEGRIME | 1 % | 7 |
| SCATHE | 1 % | 6 |
| DENIGRATE | 1 % | 9 |
Why may TAINT be the right solution?
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Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Sully
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- slander
- cloud
- defile
- defame
- corrupt
- besmirch
- smear
- denigrate
- tarnish
- taint
- asperse
- calumniate
Crossword Answer definitions
TAINT noun- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish
- Tincture; hue; colour
- Infection; corruption; deprivation
- A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
- To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- To spoil (food) by contamination.
- To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
- To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
- To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- The perineum.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result TAINT
More clues leading to the result MAR
More clues leading to the result TARNISH
- Stain, as a rep
- Lose luster
- Stain, as a reputation
- Taint
- Stain
- Become discolored, as silverware
- Besmirch
- Sully, as a reputation
- Sully
- Silver flaw
More clues leading to the result SMEAR
- Vilify during a campaign
- Libel
- Mess up the makeup
- Bad mouth
- Talk shit about
- ___ campaign
- Tarnish
- Apply Vaseline
- Besmirch
- Blurry mess
More clues leading to the result STAIN
- Leaky-pen consequence
- Mark of disgrace
- Woodworker's need
- Blemish
- Blotch
- Discoloration
- Sully
- "The Human ___" (Philip Roth)
- Disgrace
- Finish up some furniture
More clues leading to the result DEFILE
- Narrow mountain pass
- Contaminate
- Make dirty
- Besmirch
- Pollute
- Sully
- Taint
- Sully, as a reputation
- Tarnish, as a reputation
- Dirty
More clues leading to the result SMIRCH
- Sully
- Taint
- Tarnish
- Blot on one's reputation.
- Sully.
- Discredit
- Discrediting act
- Soil
- Insult the name of
- Dishonor
More clues leading to the result SOIL
- Make dirty
- Earth
- Planting medium
- Potting need
- Erosion loss
- Pollute
- Get dirty
- Dirty
- Gardener's medium
- Planter's medium
More clues leading to the result BESMEAR
More clues leading to the result BEFOUL
More clues leading to the result BESMIRCH
More clues leading to the result TAR
- Black gunk
- Defile
- Highway-crew need
- Macadam material
- Pitch
- Pitch yielder
- Roofing material
- Seafarer
- Sticky black stuff
- __ Heel (North Carolinian)
More clues leading to the result BLOT
- Smudge
- Stain
- Use a paper towel
- Rorschach pattern
- Splotch
- Rorschach unit
- Inkjet snafu
- Dab dry
- Stain or disgrace
- Rorschach image
More clues leading to the result BLUR
- Indistinct sight
- "Song 2" band
- Britpop band with the 2015 album "The Magic Whip"
- Britpop band with the album "13"
- Magoo's vision
- Myope's vision
- Speeder's view?
- Very bad snapshot
- Out of focus image
- Become unfocused
More clues leading to the result SPOT
- Dalmatian's name?
- Dry-cleaner's target
- Good name for a leopard?
- It may be soft or sweet
- Locale
- TV commercial
- "See __ run"
- Dick and Jane's dog
- Dick's dog
- Pet's name
More clues leading to the result ASPERSE
- Spread false charges against
- Spread slander
- Cast slander at
- Denigrate
- Denigrate through insinuation
- Slander
- Bad-mouth
- Sully
- Baptize
- Malign
More clues leading to the result CONTAMINATE
More clues leading to the result BLEMISH
- Mark
- Bad spot on a record
- Discount reason
- Flaw
- Bad spot, perhaps
- Complexion spoiler
- Spot
- Sully.
- Defect.
- Macule
More clues leading to the result SMUT
- Plant disease
- Skinny stuff?
- Stuff in a cleared browser history
- Moral crusader's target
- Porn
- Stuff enjoyed in incognito windows
- whitehouse.com content, in the Clinton era
- Blue books
- Blue material?
- NC-17 stuff
More clues leading to the result BEGRIME
More clues leading to the result SCATHE
- Denounce bitterly
- Criticize harshly
- Lay into
- Do harm to
- Intensely criticize
- Do damage to
- Rake over the coals
- Harm
- Attack with severe criticism
- Criticize severely