Cleanly
['kliːnlɪ] or ['klinli]
Definition
(adj.) habitually clean; 'cleanly in their persons and habitations' .
(adv.) without difficulty or distortion; 'she played the piano accompaniment cleanly'.
(adv.) in a manner that minimizes dirt and pollution; 'the motor burns cleanly'.
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Definition
(superl.) Habitually clean; pure; innocent.
(superl.) Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc.
(superl.) Adroit; skillful; dexterous; artful.
(adv.) In a clean manner; neatly.
(adv.) Innocently; without stain.
(adv.) Adroitly; dexterously.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Clean, neat, tidy.
ad. Neatly, in a clean or neat manner.
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Examples
- They smelled cleanly of oil and grease. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Abu Bekr was a man without doubts, his beliefs cut down to acts cleanly as a sharp knife cuts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A mild-looking, cleanly-attired young woman opened the door. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Cotton’s Compleat Gamster published in 1674, refers to billiards as This most gentle, cleanly and ingenious game. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As a peasant girl, she would go ever trim and cleanly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She was very cleanly and plainly dressed, had country mud upon her shoes, and was newly come from a journey. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- They are all comely of countenance, and exceedingly neat and cleanly; they look as if they were just out of a band-box. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She knew it could not disappear so cleanly and conveniently. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was decently and cleanly dressed, and so was Job, who stood bolt upright behind him, staring at Mr. Pickwick with a visage of iron. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A silver boiler is more cleanly than a lead, copper, or tin one; and the same quality would render a gold boiler still better than a silver one. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Many of these holes are as round and as cleanly cut as if they had been made with an auger. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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