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clean-cut
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Clean-cut
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clean-cut
/
ˈklinˈkʌt
/
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kleen
-
kuht
]
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adjective
1.
having distinct, regular shape:
a face with clean-cut features.
2.
clearly outlined.
3.
neat and wholesome:
a polite, clean-cut young man.
4.
unambiguously clear; unmistakable; clear-cut:
The case against him is a clean-cut one.
Origin:
1835–45
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clean-cut
—
adj
1.
clearly outlined; neat:
clean-cut lines of a ship
2.
definite:
a clean-cut decision in boxing
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Example sentences
Its gravity would draw in particles, sculpting what would otherwise be a fuzzy boundary into a
clean-cut
ring.
Too often the attacker is the
clean-cut
acquaintance next door.
It has been
clean-cut
and impartial, divorced from all attempts to make it serve the selfish interests of particular nations.
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