cleanly

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Cleanly sliced into two parts, this spare novel of complicated ambitions — personal, professional and familial — pits three people against their perceived places in the world as well as their rarely acknowledged shadow selves.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2025

Cleanly shaven after sporting a scruffy beard for years in Texas, he was 0 for 4 before singling to center on a 3-2 pitch to break a 4-4 tie.

From Washington Times • Apr. 11, 2021

Cleanly coated with powdered pigment, the metal assemblages summon memories of Los Angeles’ 1960s “Finish Fetish” art movement, which was inspired by the pristine surfaces of hot rods and surfboards.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2015

Cleanly written, with a measure of sympathy and perhaps a little understandable mystification beneath the sober writing, “Dreadful” inspires a curious combination of fascination, pity and revulsion.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2013

Then they brought the infant to her, Cleanly robed, and sweetly smiling, And the parting soul turn'd backward, And the clay-seal on the eyelids Lifted up to gaze upon it.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard