Definitions for saintly

saintly saint·ly

Spelling: [seynt-lee]
IPA: /ˈseɪnt li/

Saintly is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in saintly (ailnsty).

Definitions for saintly

adjective

  1. pertaining to, like, or befitting a saint:

Origin of saintly

First recorded in 1650-60; saint + -ly

Examples for saintly

Top U.S. officials contribute with their daily evocation of saintly principles that the United States itself has often defied.

At the Tambov hermitage the anchorite Hilary, a man of saintly life, has died.

Wilfrid also was one of the saintly architects of the period.

Diana came to see her as a sweet, saintly woman whose charity work was an inspiration.

She confided in me a little in those days, but ever with a most saintly resignation.

They penned me up here with these saintly mothers and these angelic children.

Sometimes, that intense social judgment, that expectation of saintly loving maternal perfection, can destroy a mother.

"Indeed, none too saintly," said I, speaking my thoughts aloud.

Reasons for my Gingrich blues No lunar dreams or Grecian cruise No credit line from Tiffany's No saintly wife, his former squeeze.

Fleiss makes the film as a devotee would, depicting Weir in a saintly glow.

Word Value for saintly
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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