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cleanly

[klen-lee, kleen-lee] / ˈklɛn li, ˈklin li /
ADVERB
neat
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Gas burns more cleanly than diesel, and it offered a means of complying with new regulations due to come into force on sooty pollutants, known as NOx and SOx.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Many environmental groups have long been skeptical even of the 1% of hydrogen that is produced cleanly — called green hydrogen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

A paper he co-wrote, presented at the Kansas City Fed’s 2022 Jackson Hole symposium, highlighted how the process doesn’t run cleanly in reverse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Both hit the shields cleanly and were well past before the padded butts came spinning around.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

It has a higher back than the domestic hog, and cleanlier habits; an odoriferous gland on the loins, and three-toed hind feet.

From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

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

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

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 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

I have grown to know that "Jones'" is the cleanliest place in the Excelsior village, and yet to our thinking it lacks perfection.

From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Marie Van Vorst

It forms one of the cleanliest and most beautiful shades, and when in blossom gives a rich prospect, and sends abroad a delicious fragrance.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck

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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