Crossword-Solution: UNSAINTLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Unsaintly | a. | Unbecoming to a saint. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “UNSAINTLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Lacking in piety. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with UNSAINTLY (5)
Sir Galahad occupies the intervals between his serious occupations with rolling his father Sir Launcelot and other noble knights into the dust in the usual unsaintly fashion.
Not less in keeping is the situation in which the unsaintly friar is introduced: caught by the civic guard, past midnight, in an equivocal neighbourhood, quite able and ready, however, to fraternise with his captors, and pour forth, rough and ready, his ideas and adventures.
Nicholas and his Eve have been replaced by Christmas Eve and the Christ Child, while the name Klas has become attached to various unsaintly forms appearing at or shortly before Christmas.
There were also bands of men in various disguises, and there were figures of saints and other devices, before which the people were made to bow, albeit the saints, being badly carved, some of them looking most unsaintly and unbeautiful, were jeered at, and laughed at by those at a distance, those near being compelled to bow down as they did to the host.
They could almost see his white habit gliding along the corridor, and his unsaintly eyes gleaming from under his cowl.
Quotes with UNSAINTLY (1)
It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1962).