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• s  marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint
  a saintly concern for his fellow men

• And in the style of Indian saintly ones, he is always ready to confess his past misdeeds.
• Fone goes from the book's main character to being its Hero, just as Smiley's foolishness has an almost saintly quality to it and even Phoney's plots are revealed as more complex .
• But even as Maciel's institutional star was rising, un-saintly allegations about him were surfacing.

• angelic
• angelical
• beatific
• saintlike
• sainted

News & Articles

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• In ‘Unfinished Song,’ Vanessa Redgrave Lives for Music
  Unfinished Songwith Vanessa Redgrave and Terence Stamp. To gag or to weep, that is the question. You may do both while watching “Unfinished Song,” a shamelessly sentimental, manipulative comic tear-jerker about a British chorus, the OAPz (for Old-Age Pensioners); a grumpy old man; and his saintly wife.
  June 20, 2013 - New York Times
• Dads deserve your attention today
  When Mother's Day rolls around, there is no missing the ballyhoo that accompanies it. Our moms are depicted as saintly figures who can do no wrong.
  June 16, 2013 - Zanesville Times Recorder

Quotes

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• Kenneth Clarke in Northumberland Gazette
  Tory former chancellor Ken Clarke said of the Archbishop: "He's just one of the most unworldly men I have ever met, together with being one of the most intelligent and plainly one of the most saintly and he has got himself into an absolutely classic...
• Peter Costello in Blayney Chronicle
  To actually be hiding behind this saintly image when you're prepared to have other people go out and do your dirty work for you, actually makes the fraud worse,Mr Costello said.