saintly
adjective
pertaining to, like, or befitting a saint.
unsaintly
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a word derived from
saintly.
Example Sentences
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The in Argentina realized that its behavior during that dark period was so unsaintly that in 2000 it made a public apology for its failure to take a stand against the generals.
From Time ● Mar. 14, 2013
But back in Washington, critics charged that Watt's Interior Department was proving all too charitable, in a most unsaintly way, to private industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most unsaintly, perhaps, of all the English bishops who loved the music of twanging bow-strings and clashing steel, was “Weymundus or Reymundus,” first Bishop of Sodar and Man.
From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by William Andrews
The wicked world hopes, and, alas! its hopes cannot be fulfilled without stabbing our noble Clodwig to the heart,—it hopes that this dragon of virtue will one day find its unsaintly George.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
A thick, gilt-decorated Holy Bible lay in the centre of the marble-top table, shamed now by contact with the crown of his unsaintly hat.
From Viola Gwyn by George Barr McCutcheon
