Bad
Bad adjective - Falling short of a standard.
Saintly
Saintly adjective - Showing a devotion to God and to a life of virtue.
Both words in one sentence
- Black and Grey Morality: None of the factions in this are exactly saintly, but the bad guys... are pretty bad.
Source: Literature / Kraken -
So much so that later in life he actually felt bad that people would give his old friend Henry Fonda a hard time about his multiple failed marriages while no one ever brought up Stewart's own less than saintly track record.
Source: The Casanova -
Evil Versus Evil: The sociopathic American soldiers themselves (with the exception of Taylor, Elias, and a few others) may not be one of the movies' saintly soldiers, but the NVA who were against them were as bad as they.
Source: Film / Platoon
Cite this Source
Saintly and Bad. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bad/saintly
Bad & Saintly. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/bad/saintly>.
Saintly or Bad. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bad/saintly.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "bad" and "saintly" have occurred on timeline