Holy Joe

slang

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for Holy Joe
Noun
  • Again, Two Spears deduces the facts — that the priest must have killed the girl’s father before the girl killed the priest in self-defense.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2025
  • After taking a couple episodes to establish its premise, there’s a procedural rhythm to Hub’s hunting expeditions, tracking targets from a possessed priest to a Satanic cheerleader.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • If clergymen are defrocked and lawyers are disbarred, then alcoholics are delivered, hairdressers are distressed, and pornographers are deluded.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Kirchner had, a year earlier, backed sanctions for clergymen who publicly opposed the government’s human rights policies, including his decision to annul laws pardoning dictatorship-era atrocities.
    Federico Perelmuter, The Dial, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The preacher and producer has been dating his soon-to-be wife for a year.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Castillo is ecstatic to be marrying the preacher and was taken aback by the proposal.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Martini was a key figure in a group of churchmen who met annually in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to ponder how best to blunt John Paul and Ratzinger’s reactionary thrust.
    Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • For centuries the resinous sap—which, when dried and burned, was said to smell of the divine—was one of the most valuable commodities in the world.
    Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Coca alone makes possible direct communication with the divine, with some saying today that the first to taste the leaves was Santísima María, mother of Christ, who, according to legend, lost her holy child and chewed on the leaves to allay her grief.
    Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Dixon, an administrator with the Kane County Sheriff’s Office and a deacon at Second Baptist Church, is seeking a third term.
    Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Peter & Paul parishioners say are flatly false, including an unfounded claim that the deacon has a criminal record and was once sentenced to 30 days in jail.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 18 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Preserving community gems Michael Major is a reverend at Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia.
    Buffy Gorrilla, NPR, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Most of the cards feature gothic-style fonts, limited colors like black and red, and some were even sent by reverends or churches.
    Paul du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Holy Joe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Holy%20Joe. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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