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    If someone is saintly, they seem completely good and honest, as if they had no faults — like a saint. It describes a person, a look, or a kind of patience: a saintly smile, saintly patience. Though actually, English speakers also use saintly in a slightly teasing way, when someone is being so good it feels a bit much, or when we are being kind about a person who is putting up with a lot. It is the adjective; the noun for the quality is . A close twin is saintlike.

    聖人般的、聖潔的

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組成saint + -ly (“like a saint”). From Middle English; compare saintlike.

同家族的字

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

saintlyadj/ˈseɪntli/

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    Like or characteristic of a saint; befitting a holy person; saintlike.

    • Sophie led a saintly life.
    • Since my sother is nothing short of saintly, she fetches me daily from work and transports me here and there.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。