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Meanings of saintly in English
Synonyms
Examples for "angelic"
Examples for "angelic"
1
In the last short illness, her conduct in simple truth was angelic.
2
The gulf is the difference between the angelic and the diabolic temperament.
3
No one, let's be clear, is suggesting the media are collectively angelic.
4
Clara, once the gentlest of the gentle, was perfectly angelic no longer.
5
The lines of that unblemished face were the ideal of angelic purity.
1
But when I enter, it isn't a beatific corpse waiting for me.
2
As Dillon surveyed them his formerly beatific expression twisted with appalling suddenness.
3
This was unquestionably me: beatific as I am not, idealized, but me.
4
He took on a smile which could only be described as beatific.
5
Instead it was a beatific thank you from Grande to her exes.
1
Some other sainted wiseass once said that dramatic events accelerate your thinking.
2
In some respects, he treads in the footsteps of his sainted mother.
3
Gordon thought of what that sainted gentleman could have done with these.
4
One thing only redeemed Britons and that was the sainted Tony Blair.
5
I accordingly took the pirate my Bible-ithad been my sainted mother's.
1
Darr, in the angelical tongue, is the true name of the stone.'
2
I don't understand your angelical, diabolical, incomprehensible sex: who on earth can?
3
The angelical beauty of a virgin mind and person captivated him, by contrast.
4
He advanced, and bowed gravely, while an angelical smile played upon his lips.
5
That plan is military and Christian and civilized and human and angelical and tancy-crumptious.
1
The idea of the saintlike, long-suffering patient is a big romantic fiction.
2
Had the pastors prayed, all saintlike as they seemed, it had been blasphemy.
3
Noel, who had achieved the most saintlike behaviour during the past week, went also.
4
We sometimes see a wicked man suddenly become saintlike.
5
She was looking sweet and saintlike, and she had a plate of sandwiches in her hand.
Usage of saintly in English
1
Five minutes later a thin, saintly-looking young man arrived at the church.
2
The saintly thing to do is make an inquiry ahead of time.
3
A look of dismay appeared on the saintly face of the rector.
4
The condition of the saintly nun became day by day more painful.
5
The learned and saintly Port Royalists, in many respects, were her disciples.
6
We find that error by excess is exemplified by every saintly virtue.
7
Far from being saintly relics, these were pieces of an ancient mummy.
8
Throughout the years his saintly life has been a benediction to me.
9
The saintly voice, like the angelic, is more living than our own.
10
Or one of the bloodless new breed, like the saintly Stella Creasy?
11
The saintly Confessor dealt with his bishops as summarily as Henry VIII.
12
Saint Peter losing his saintly temper over the expansive philanthropy of millionaires.
13
The saintly Fenelon was her friend, but he could not shield her.
14
Around her saintly face there seemed to circle a halo of glory.
15
Your face, Madam, speaks equally of profound sorrows and of saintly resignation.
16
He was a man whose life was more than exemplary-itwas saintly.
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Saintly across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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