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单词 saintly
释义
saintly
adjective
uk
/ˈseɪnt.li/us
/ˈseɪnt.li/
like asaint:
圣徒似的，圣人般的
Her saintlymannerconcealedadeviousmind.她圣徒般的举止掩盖了狡猾的内心。
Theyelevatedhim to analmostsaintlylevel.他们把他提升到近乎是圣人的地位。
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  • Theysawher as a saintlyperson.
  • He wasdescribedby hisneighboursas a saintlyoldgentleman.
  • She is a woman of saintlypatience.
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(Definition ofsaintlyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

saintly| American Dictionary

saintly
adjective
us
/ˈseɪnt·li/
good,kind, andpatient:
Heseemedthegentle, saintly man everyone said he was.
(Definition ofsaintlyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsaintly

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It is at once a declaration ofsaintlypower, an imaging of the shrine's history and an advertisement of the kinds of services available there.
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Golding risks reading all but the mostsaintlyindividuals out of the community of religious theists.
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His gallery contains literary portraits of twelve women, four of whom aresaintly, four chaste and four lasvicious.
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In the thirteenth centurysaintlyprincesses took on the function of dynastic legitimation.
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If you do, you are eithersaintlyor pathetic.
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By telling, writing-and, one might add, experiencing-their visions, the followers actively participate in constructing and upholding the shaykh'ssaintlystatus.
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For in the swiftness of her canonisation and the fragility of hersaintlyreputation she is without parallel.
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He was immensely popular and held in almostsaintlyregard by the majority of the people.
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And he has that feeling about life, something of course which issaintly.
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The problem is thatsaintlyactions, which often involve forgoing one's own well-being for the sake of others, may be self-defeating when we have perfect enforcement of moral norms.
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We may have beensaintlyand tried as hard as possible to ignore those comments, but we had heard them.
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But it is a much more serious thing that a man of hissaintlycharacter should do things which deserve imprisonment.
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Martyrs, even if not verysaintlyones, are rarely worth making.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
He is a man of known moderation, and in a moment of weakness one might say that he is ofsaintlyappearance.
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It is obviously not impossible in the sense that millions of perfectly normal people, few of themsaintly, in fact achieve it.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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