godly

Example Sentences

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Melissa Gordon struggled to reconcile the godly woman she thought she knew with the details now emerging.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 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

Pluto was just another deadbeat godly dad making weak excuses.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan