squeaky clean
Example Sentences
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While folk music boomed in the 1950s, thanks in large part to squeaky-clean groups such as the Kingston Trio, Cash used his songs to resurrect outsider figures from America’s past, such as the outlaw John Wesley Hardin and Charles Guiteau, President Garfield’s assassin.
Indeed, the Maddens found a certain frisson from the get-go in writing about their rough-and-tumble upbringing with a squeaky-clean pop flair.
From Los Angeles Times
The spoof opens with the squeaky-clean Manning playing touch football with the group, encouraging everyone in the huddle to practice teamwork and have fun.
From Los Angeles Times
Garvey cultivated a squeaky-clean, all-American image as a player, and has campaigned as a “role model” and “devoted family man.”
From Los Angeles Times
While Mitchell, Gallagher and Rosman said they sometimes wished they could have been on an edgier show and that they experienced similar pangs of wanting to break free from their squeaky-clean TV images during production, they never followed through the way Biel did.
From Los Angeles Times
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