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
No one of the bishops or abbots would stir out for their detected dead fellow, but “to desert him in his last need” was impossible to his saintlier brother.
From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Marson, Charles L. (Charles Latimer)
Yea, verily am I! a follower of the saintly Ludovick Muggleton, and of the saintlier John Reeve, of whom Ludovick is but the mouthpiece, even as Aaron was of Moses.
From Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Johnston, Mary
He doesn't mind making people unhappy, because the more they're repressed, the saintlier they'll be.
From Saint's Progress by Galsworthy, John
Or higher, holier, saintlier when, as now, All nature sacerdotal seems, and thou.
From Poems by Thompson, Francis
