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
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, but often saintlier than fiction.
From The New Jerusalem by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
A saintlier pastor than the Reverend Mr. Goodman, D.D., few congregations possessed; but only those members of his audience who were of like age with himself thought him a good preacher.
From Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia by Finnemore, Joseph
And he was probably saintlier than they were, because he was their child.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
You will read for yourself, by and by, many others: stories of older Saints, and perhaps of brighter Saints, or it may be even of saintlier Saints than these.
From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)
