单词	saintly
释义	saintlysaint‧ly /ˈseɪntli/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES He was a saintly man who always put others before himself. She was a simple, loving and saintly woman. There were aspects of her life that were not as saintly as the Victorians liked to believe. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Dear me, thought Franca, then perhaps I might be in danger of actually becoming as saintly as I seem! Fergus, beautiful and saintly as a baby, grows up to be a wild young man of great charm. I spoke to them in the doorway of an old stone-flagged kitchen full of saintly pictures. Nowadays we live in less saintly times and I long for some one to help me with my ironing. One of the more saintly characters of the first half of the century was Mary Sherwood. She looked into his saintly long-lashed eyes. Shortly before his death he refused the Bishopric of Glasgow and died a saintly death on August 3, 1159. The saintly abbess spent several fruitful years in that convent, the recipient of extraordinary mystical favors. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatormorally good person► good kind, honest, and helpful: · Jean's a very good person - she's always ready to help.· He had always tried to lead a good life.· I wish I could be a better person.· There are good and bad people wherever you go. ► decent someone who is decent is good and honest according to the normal standards of society: · Decent citizens have nothing to fear from the police.· a decent, honest, hard-working woman· Decent members of the public will be outraged by this decision. ► respectable behaving and living your life in a way that is considered morally correct by society, especially because of the family you come from: · Tony was always in trouble with the police when he was young, but now he's a respectable married man.· The girls in the school all come from very respectable families. ► upright written someone who is upright is honest, obeys the law, and behaves according to the moral standards of society: · Most upright, law-abiding citizens have very little contact with the police.· Maggie's parents set her a good example, being upright and hard-working people. ► virtuous formal very good and honest and always behaving according to the highest moral standards: · Father Tom was a hard-working, virtuous man, liked and respected by everyone.· They wanted him to marry a virtuous young woman from a respectable family. ► saint someone who is unusually kind, generous, helpful etc and is therefore considered to be very special: · Your mother's a saint. She's done so much to help us.· I always thought she was a selfish woman but she was an absolute saint compared to Abigail. ► saintly behaving in a very good way, especially by living your life in a very pure and holy way: · He was a saintly man who always put others before himself.· There were aspects of her life that were not as saintly as the Victorians liked to believe. ► be an example to to be so good or to have achieved something so good that other people would improve if they tried to be like you: · You're a very brave young man. An example to all of us!· His discipline and organization should be an example to teachers everywhere. completely good and honest, with no faults:  She led a saintly and blameless life.—saintliness noun [uncountable]
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