saintly
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But despite mom’s self-serving machinations and to her infinite surprise, Mary, saintly and wise, starts to prove herself irresistible to men.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Fortunately, she has the saintly Monica as her guide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
This disciplined capital allocation — returning all free cash flow to shareholders via dividends and buybacks — makes it practically saintly.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025
Similarly, after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, the “Notorious RBG” meme ecosystem instantly expanded to include digital portraits and merchandise that cast her as a saintly defender of justice.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2025
This Mr. Dreher has already been a great nuisance to Father, and I’ve always admired the saintly patience with which he handled this pathetic old man on the phone.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
They care about telling themselves that their profession is saintlier than it is, and they’re superior to the reformed liar who wants to work with them.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2014
No one of the bishops or abbots would stir out for their detected dead fellow, but “to desert him in his last need” was impossible to his saintlier brother.
From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson
And he was probably saintlier than they were, because he was their child.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, but often saintlier than fiction.
From The New Jerusalem by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Or higher, holier, saintlier when, as now, All nature sacerdotal seems, and thou.
From Poems by Francis Thompson
Yet, before turning the relic over to the police, Brand said he was on his saintliest behavior.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2022
Moreover, in all but the saintliest circles, forgiveness may be a luxury that depends upon a certain surrounding stability.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the meekest and saintliest monarch could scarce pass unscathed through the baptism of fraud practised on Henry; and Henry was at no time saintly or meek.
From Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
The saintliest and the meanest men have still common ground for brotherhood.
From The Religious Spirit of the Slavs (1916) Sermons On Subjects Suggested By The War, Third Series by Nikolai Velimirović
We live poorly enough at the best, even the saintliest of us, and many of us certainly make sad work of our life.
From Making the Most of Life by J. R. (James Russell) Miller
