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unsullied

UK/ʌnˈsʌliːd/US/ʌnˈsʌlid/
adjectiveC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,598 of 15,258leans spoken

Unsullied means still clean, and unspoiled by any stain. An unsullied reputation, unsullied by scandal, unsullied snow.

It is used most of reputations, where an unsullied one has survived everything that might have marked it. The sully in it means to soil, and the word is literary in every use.

Definitions of unsullied

  1. 1adjectiveunsulliedStill clean, and unspoiled by any stain.C2

    “The snow lay white and unsullied across the fields.”

unsullied is a quality.

Where it comes from

From un- + sullied.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

unsullied in the wild

  • Today the park has camping and picnic facilities, and is favored by astronomers for its clear views unsullied by artificial light.

    Fremont Peak (California)

  • Many landscape photographs show little to no human activity and are created in the pursuit of a pure, unsullied depiction of nature that is devoid of human influence.

    Landscape photography

  • An 18th-century bachelor named Matrimony Creek because he regarded the stream, like civil marriage, as "noisy, impetuous, and clamorous, though unsullied".

    Matrimony Creek

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.