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cleanly
/ ˈklɛnlɪlɪ; ˈklɛnlɪnɪs /
adverb
- in a fair manner
- easily or smoothly
the screw went into the wood cleanly
adjective
- habitually clean or neat
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Derived Forms
- cleanliness, noun
- cleanlily, adverb
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Other Words From
- clean·li·ness [klen, -lee-nis], noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
One day, he took a monk with a cleanly shaven head and had him walk around a light bulb to demonstrate this theory.
But, in the end, it seems the two were unable to break as cleanly as they had hoped.
Force him to raise the debt limit cleanly, or tank the U.S. and global economies.
His hair is cleanly parted to the side, like a high-school yearbook photo.
She had this extraordinary ability to be deeply involved and cleanly detached.
But the growing crops are too cleanly and carefully weeded and too uniformly good to protract the illusion.
English Agriculture has a thorough and cleanly aspect which I have rarely observed elsewhere.
The safe door was standing wide open, the interior cleanly empty.
The principal street, “Sander,” is broad and cleanly paved in the middle with square stones, and at the sides with bricks.
Noticing how cleanly our flat counters leave the water, Mollett thought—What is the use of having a sharp bow to divide the water?
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