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

Rather, the better and saintlier that they are, the keener do they feel their fallings off from it. 

From Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 by Beibitz, J. H. (Joseph Hugh)

The modern woman of the advanced type refuses to be longer regarded as a gentler and saintlier type of humanity, who must be petted, reverenced, and protected.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, but often saintlier than fiction.

From The New Jerusalem by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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

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