as in pious
showing a devotion to God and to a life of virtue
a saintly man who devoted his life to caring for the dying
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Recent Examples of saintly
In Delia’s eyes, Peter is a saintly silver fox, whose fondness for baseball and the great outdoors is only eclipsed by his passion for philosophy and feminism.
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
Such saintly behavior aside, one part of Jack that was becoming less sanctified was his body.
—Dan Koeppel, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2019
Silicon Valley’s saintly elevation of the founder-entrepreneur follows a century of management theory that celebrated such figures for their work ethic and higher purpose.
—Margaret O’Mara, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
However, the names of Louisville's saintly neighborhoods can be directly traced back to some of the area's first churches and hospitals, not the holy men themselves.
—Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 18 Apr. 2024
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
Such saintly behavior aside, one part of Jack that was becoming less sanctified was his body.
—Dan Koeppel, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2019
Silicon Valley’s saintly elevation of the founder-entrepreneur follows a century of management theory that celebrated such figures for their work ethic and higher purpose.
—Margaret O’Mara, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
However, the names of Louisville's saintly neighborhoods can be directly traced back to some of the area's first churches and hospitals, not the holy men themselves.
—Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 18 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saintly
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And yet something about her pious active listening face really gets to Urs.Caroline Framke, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
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Paxton, pious to the end, responds by talking about the Great Prayer Experiment, a (very real) series of studies that sought to test whether prayer has any tangible healing impact — and conclusively found there to be not.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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My best friend fell in love with a devout Catholic.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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Hamoudi’s sister is a devout Muslim and a supporter of Hezbollah.Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Nonetheless, the schools that close overwhelmingly tend to be very small, caught in mismanagement or legal trouble, and/or religious.Derek Newton, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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World & Nation Rebels seize Damascus; Assad reported to have fled Syria for Moscow Dec. 8, 2024 Syria is home to multiple ethnic and religious communities, often pitted against each other by Assad’s state and years of war.Sarah el Deeb and Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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This one could be like Intel in the 1990s, a stock that had one of the most sainted trajectories, rivaled and now exceeded by that of Club stock Nvidia.Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024
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Lorne Michaels is the out-of-touch one, and Jim Henson is essentially sainted.Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
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Essentially, the deal can also further one of the holy grails of he Brazilian and Spanish-language industries in Latin America: a more fluid release of Spanish-language – here Uruguayan films – in the huge market of São Paulo and beyond, and the release of Brazilian films in Uruguay.John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
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And there’s this large spectrum of religious horror and holy horror across film.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2024
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Terry was among the most reverent of Fowler over the weekend.Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 17 Dec. 2024
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But while the performer known as V was, to the world, one of seven young men at the helm of the year’s most polished, cutting-edge wave of contemporary pop dominance, the artist who grew up Kim Tae-hyung was, in his personal life, a reverent fan of a much different genre: jazz.Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Saintly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saintly. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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