This pattern of presidents sullying the office as they leave it with clemency for the connected should end, even if the pardon power lives on.

The incident — which revived memories of a massive 3-million-gallon spill almost 50 years earlier — sullied some of the state’s most pristine beaches and a rare stretch of undeveloped coastline.

There is no doubt that the crackdown has sullied the image of the president.

It threatened to sully her white dress flecked with rainbows.

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