saintly


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Synonyms for saintly

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Synonyms for saintly

deeply concerned with God and the beliefs and practice of religion

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Synonyms for saintly

marked by utter benignity

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Dargah custodian Khawaja Abdul Haq Farooqi inaugurated the Urs celebrations Tuesday by laying floral wreath on the grave of the saintly poet and listening to his poetry.
727)--whose saintly blood sanctified and protected the city.
"I like both Jesus and Buddha," Hikaru Nakamura, the author of the comic strips titled "Saintly Young Men," told Ecumenical News International.
Oh, and the packaging is recyclable, too, so at least when your Jimmy Choo's get stuck in the mud you can grit your teeth and feel saintly.
"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." - MP Kenneth Clarke on Archbishop Rowan Williams following his controversial comments about sharia law.
Saintly Michael is taking the rap for his girlfriend Sara killing bad guy Kim, so he's unhappily reunited with fellow captives T-Bag, Bellick and Mahone.
The participants held "Heil Hitler" signs and shouted "This is Poland, not Israel," "Poland is a saintly thing" and "Jews out of Poland," according to the Warsaw-based Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland.
For a half-century the world has rallied around the saintly but sophisticated 14th Dalai Lama, writes Andreas Lorenz, but at 71 Tibet's supreme figure is preaching non-confrontation with the ruling Chinese and no longer pushes for independence.
The gay wedding between farmer Adam Macy and chef Ian Craig and the unlikely affair between the saintly Ruth Archer and Sam the herdsman appear to have exhausted the patience of the public.
And for gay audiences used to the saintly, buttoned-up gay lawyers of Philadelphia and Will & Grace, I suspect Notes on a Scandal will provide a bracing alternative.
Yet all of us, be we ever so saintly, do things which we regret.
Religious fundamentalists who want to believe the story of Noah's ark as it is written in the Bible will squirm at McCaughrean's treatment; but the questions raised, as Timna struggles to understand the disaster happening all around her, trying to reconcile it with her saintly father's certainty that he knows the will of God, are valid questions, which only reflect her intelligence and righteousness.