SULLY

Meaning

A blemish.

• verbTo soil or stain; to dirty.

SULLY as a word-puzzle answer

SULLY is a 5-letter word with 1 vowel (U) and 4 consonants (S, L, L, Y). It repeats 1 letter, which is a classic trap — guessers who assume five distinct letters get stuck.

It leans on high-frequency letters (S), so a strong vowel-and-common-consonant opener tends to light up quickly. There are no rare letters here, so it is a fair, mid-difficulty answer for the daily Classic puzzle.