Holy Joe

slang

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for Holy Joe
Noun
  • Castro went to a Jesuit high school in Havana, Belén, and was taught by Spanish priests.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The girl gave birth when Velez-Lopez started serving as a priest in Alexandria, Louisiana, according to the report.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In 1781, a French clergyman named Antoine Court de Gébelin claimed to have discovered the ancient Book of Thoth while attending a stylish salon in Paris.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • One of the key details revealed in the emails, according to the reports, was from a Saints team spokesman who briefed his boss on a 2018 call with the city’s top prosecutor hours before the church released a list of clergymen accused of abuse.
    Mark Puleo, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Each celebrates a matriarch who was present at the Sunday dinners of Hall’s childhood, including her maternal grandmother, Celestine, to a close family friend, Miss Sally, to the preacher’s wife, Mrs. Brooks.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2025
  • There’s also Anthony Perkins as a madman in a preacher’s robe who is obsessed with China Blue.
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
  • If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • Gold leaf canvases are placed to catch and reflect light in ways that signal the divine.
    Kim Córdova, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Within every person — each and every one of us made in God’s image — is the spark of the divine.
    William McCarthy, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Deeply religious, Boyles was a deacon at Maranatha Family Worship Center in Kansas City.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2025
  • According to the emails, communication between church leaders and Saints officials began in July 2018 after Greg Bensel, the Saints’ head of communications, shared a local news story with Benson about a former deacon who was removed from ministry due to abuse accusations.
    Mark Puleo, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 18 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • The reverend said the mayor’s leadership has been undermined by Acting Deputy U.S. Attorney General Emil Bove’s memo, which left open the possibility of reviving the mayor’s case at a later date.
    Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • President Trump said Tuesday the prayer service for his inauguration, when the reverend called on him to have mercy on transgender children and immigrant families, wasn’t too exciting.
    Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
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“Holy Joe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Holy%20Joe. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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