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cleanly

[klen-lee, kleen-lee] / ˈklɛn li, ˈklin li /
ADVERB
neat
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It maps on pretty cleanly because a lot of the cases that people really like involve the court enforcing federal legislation.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2026

The questions that define civilizations don’t always announce themselves cleanly.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Sharia-compliant funds make the point even more cleanly.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

The slender and rangy left-hander Kemp, almost Ben Stokes-like with a flowing bat swing, hits cleanly straight or, as shown with her two sixes against Scotland, over mid-wicket.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

The inner and outer tubes separated cleanly and easily.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

Under the painful surface-blur of wretchedness and fatigued debauchery, she traced reflectively the lineaments of the younger and cleanlier countenance she had seen a few months before.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

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

There are also, however, cleanlier families, in whose sleeping chamber the air is not so disgusting.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This toilet was as elaborate and painstaking as that of the cleanliest of cats or squirrels.

From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

He was the cleanliest and neatest boy at the yeshivah.

From The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan

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




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