cleanlier; cleanliest
1
: careful to keep clean : fastidious
2
: habitually kept clean
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Adverb
A sharp knife will cut through the skin of a tomato cleanly.
This fuel burns more cleanly than other fuels.
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Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
The error put two on with no outs for Will Smith, who chopped a grounder to the shortstop hole that Anthony Volpe fielded cleanly.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
Among the 21 artists are Julia Chon and Dave Young Kim, who offer cleanly hard-edge paintings of, respectively, a woman in traditional garb and two storks below two strands of barbed wire.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
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Adverb
Even if Rhodes did indicate in a recent promo that there would be a decisive winner in this dream match, this is one of those bouts where WWE having one of its biggest stars lose cleanly could do more harm than good.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
The error put two on with no outs for Will Smith, who chopped a grounder to the shortstop hole that Anthony Volpe fielded cleanly.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Adjective
One major problem is that these delegations are seldom made cleanly.
—Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
Among the 21 artists are Julia Chon and Dave Young Kim, who offer cleanly hard-edge paintings of, respectively, a woman in traditional garb and two storks below two strands of barbed wire.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
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“Cleanly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cleanly. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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