clean·ly

[adj. klen-lee; adv. kleen-lee] adjective, clean·li·er, clean·li·est, adverb
adjective
1.
personally neat; careful to keep or make clean: The cat is by nature a cleanly animal.
2.
habitually kept clean.
3.
Obsolete. cleansing; making clean.
adverb
4.
in a clean manner.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English clenlich(e), Old English clǣnlīc, equivalent to clǣne clean + -līc -ly

clean·li·ness [klen-lee-nis] , noun

cleanliness, cleanness.
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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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