adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was a saintly man who always put others before himself.
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She was a simple, loving and saintly woman.
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There were aspects of her life that were not as saintly as the Victorians liked to believe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dear me, thought Franca, then perhaps I might be in danger of actually becoming as saintly as I seem!
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Fergus, beautiful and saintly as a baby, grows up to be a wild young man of great charm.
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I spoke to them in the doorway of an old stone-flagged kitchen full of saintly pictures.
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Nowadays we live in less saintly times and I long for some one to help me with my ironing.
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One of the more saintly characters of the first half of the century was Mary Sherwood.
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She looked into his saintly long-lashed eyes.
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Shortly before his death he refused the Bishopric of Glasgow and died a saintly death on August 3, 1159.
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The saintly abbess spent several fruitful years in that convent, the recipient of extraordinary mystical favors.