Definition of sainted
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Examples of sainted in a Sentence
They believed whatever they were told by their sainted leader.
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Even the sainted Franklin Roosevelt vacillated between expansionary fiscal policy and austerity, and between attacking corporate power and encouraging monopoly.
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Sainted Sainted: Anne Dudley, who has been an educator for 43 years, 27 of them in the North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale school district, most of them as an autism specialist.
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Like, hey, the sainted Showtime Lakers and Jordan Bulls once did?
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Even the sainted Strunk & White have been repeatedly demonstrated to be both haphazard grammarians and in the case of White, habitual violators of their own dictums.
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Sainted be the person or persons who made G’ma Babe so happy!
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Newcomer Nintendo didn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the sainted Atari 2600.
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First Known Use of sainted
1593
SAINTED Defined for English Language Learners
sainted
playDefinition of sainted for English Language Learners
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: unusually good, kind, or patient
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: admired by many people
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