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)

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

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)

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