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cleanly

[klen-lee, kleen-lee] / ˈklɛn li, ˈklin li /
ADVERB
neat
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Two red flags during final practice had led some teams to have private sweepstakes as to how many stoppages there would be in qualifying, but the session ran cleanly, with no incidents.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

“Pulling in the language from the posting shows recruiters and hiring managers you’re a genuine fit for the role — and helps your résumé read cleanly to an applicant-tracking system along the way.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

It can be made cleanly by cleaving the hydrogen out of water using clean electricity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

It maps on pretty cleanly because a lot of the cases that people really like involve the court enforcing federal legislation.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

It was made of old gray stone and had twin spires that rose cleanly into the sky, high above the tallest tenements.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

It has a higher back than the domestic hog, and cleanlier habits; an odoriferous gland on the loins, and three-toed hind feet.

From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

The little inn was cleanlier and better kept than many of the more pretentious ones.

From British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland by Thomas Dowler Murphy

Sir, I Had rather like the first best; not onely because it is cleanlier, but because it reflects least upon the other party, which, in all jest and earnest, in this affair, I wish avoided.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne

There are also, however, cleanlier families, in whose sleeping chamber the air is not so disgusting.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie

Under the painful surface-blur of wretchedness and fatigued debauchery, she traced reflectively the lineaments of the younger and cleanlier countenance she had seen a few months before.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

The gentle Maldivians are among Asia's best-fed, cleanliest and healthiest people.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their cleanliest monthly average is 54 tons of dirt to the square mile.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another time, however, I will visit neither the one nor the other; but take up my quarters at the King of Wirtemberg--the neatest, cleanliest, and most comfortable hotel in Stuttgart.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

I have grown to know that "Jones'" is the cleanliest place in the Excelsior village, and yet to our thinking it lacks perfection.

From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Marie Van Vorst

And yet the Bulgarians, in these miserable cottages, are the cleanliest people in the world.

From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson




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