clean-cut
Example Sentences
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Yet, I live in the messy, gray middle, the waiting and wondering, a category that is rarely so clean-cut.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
It was doubly bold, because Seaver was a clean-cut former Marine not given to agitation, and the World Series hadn’t even started.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Russian comedian Andrei Bocharov, 59, made his name as a clean-cut "Mama's boy" playing an awkward character in an absurdist 1990s TV show about post-Soviet life.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
Ver is clean-cut and fit — he has a black belt in Brazilian jujitsu.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
Simpsons Reps are sucky kids who appear in high school yearbooks wearing blazers with crests on the pockets, looking clean-cut, and advertising Simpsons.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
