cleanly

This is not a win we get to keep cleanly.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

Joey Ortiz fielded it cleanly, set his feet—and threw the ball straight into the dirt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Two red flags during final practice had led some teams to have private sweepstakes as to how many stoppages there would be in qualifying, but the session ran cleanly, with no incidents.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

“Pulling in the language from the posting shows recruiters and hiring managers you’re a genuine fit for the role — and helps your resume read cleanly to an applicant-tracking system along the way.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

I was using Etienne’s pocketknife to tighten up screws attaching a cable that lifted the blade, to make sure it would fall cleanly.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

His hair and beard were freshly trimmed, and he had a cleanlier look than we have hitherto noticed; moreover, his expression had lost a little of its habitual sullen truculence.

From Till the Clock Stops by J. J. (John Joy) Bell

Sir, I Had rather like the first best; not onely because it is cleanlier, but because it reflects least upon the other party, which, in all jest and earnest, in this affair, I wish avoided.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne

To this Gargantua answered, that he had taken such a course for that himself, that in all the country there was not to be found a cleanlier boy than he.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux

The little inn was cleanlier and better kept than many of the more pretentious ones.

From British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland by Thomas Dowler Murphy

Nature would do that cleanlier; and waxwork more powerfully!

From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Maurice Henry Hewlett

The gentle Maldivians are among Asia's best-fed, cleanliest and healthiest people.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their cleanliest monthly average is 54 tons of dirt to the square mile.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sheep, the cleanliest of creatures, here made a symbol of those who have all their sins washed away in the fountain of redeeming mercy.

From New Tabernacle Sermons by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

And yet the Bulgarians, in these miserable cottages, are the cleanliest people in the world.

From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson

He spent thus by far the cleanliest and most sane years of his wayward life.

From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Henry Hewlett