cleanly
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Cleanly
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| cleanly | |
| —adv | |
| 1. | in a fair manner |
| 2. | easily or smoothly: the screw went into the wood cleanly |
| —adj , -lier, -liest | |
| 3. | habitually clean or neat |
| cleanlily | |
| —adv | |
| cleanliness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
It's effective, cool-looking, and breaks away cleanly when kicked.
The legality of their detention on those terms has never been cleanly settled.
Wood burning can be done cleanly, even in an open pit.
So it is part of the equation, but not a cleanly separable part of it.
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