godly

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Like the calm, godly Eye, he registers the good and bad of human nature with moral clarity but without castigation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026

Allen was “a godly person” who never cursed or shared his political views at the time, a former teammate told The Times, but he was also “very competitive.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

His vanishing cultural presence also exposed another inconvenient fact—that he was hardly as godly as the memes made him out to be.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

"He was the most godly, humane, kind, gracious human being I think I've ever met," Alex Ryvchin of the Executive Council of Australia Jewry, told reporters at Bondi on Monday morning.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

Much like his godly forefather, Orcus, the underworld god of punishment, Bryce was completely remorseless.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan