saintlier

Example Sentences

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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

Or higher, holier, saintlier when, as now, All nature sacerdotal seems, and thou.

From Poems by Thompson, Francis

And he was probably saintlier than they were, because he was their child.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

Is my soul a saintlier thing than it was a year ago?

From The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation by Hughson, Shirley C.

A saintlier pastor than the Reverend Mr. Goodman, D.D., few congregations possessed; but only those members of his audience who were of like age with himself thought him a good preacher.

From Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia by Finnemore, Joseph