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Cleanly   /klˈinli/   Listen
adverb
Cleanly  adv.  
1.
In a clean manner; neatly. "He was very cleanly dressed."
2.
Innocently; without stain.
3.
Adroitly; dexterously.



adjective
Cleanly  adj.  (compar. cleanlier; superl. cleanliest)  
1.
Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." "Some plain but cleanly country maid." "Displays her cleanly platter on the board."
2.
Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. (Obs.) "With cleanly powder dry their hair."
3.
Adroit; skillful; dexterous; artful. (Obs.) "Through his fine handling and his cleanly play."






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"Cleanly" Quotes from Famous Books



... it was accepted. "At least, White Man," said the king, glancing at his visitor's tall spare form and cleanly cut face, "you are no 'umfagozan' (low fellow); you are of the blood ...
— Black Heart and White Heart • H. Rider Haggard

... I was a boy, and they told me work was honourable, useful, cleanly, sanitary, wholesome, and necessary to the mind of man, I paid no more attention to them than if they had told me that public men were usually honest, or that pigs could fly. It seemed to me that they were merely saying silly things they had been told to say. ...
— On Nothing & Kindred Subjects • Hilaire Belloc

... no help, come let us kiss and part, Nay I have done, you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shakes hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain. Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath, When ...
— Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles - Idea, by Michael Drayton; Fidessa, by Bartholomew Griffin; Chloris, by William Smith • Michael Drayton, Bartholomew Griffin, and William Smith

... should be careful to do herself justice when she goes to the employment department. The head of the department will be certain to note her appearance carefully. The girl should make sure that she is cleanly and neatly dressed; she should speak quietly and politely; and she should show that sincere willingness to be cheerful, obliging, and agreeable which she will find one of the best aids in her life both at work and at home. To enter a store no particular ...
— The Canadian Girl at Work - A Book of Vocational Guidance • Marjory MacMurchy

... her lips when she saw 'sister-in-law' Li coming also to see what the noise was all about. "How is it," she then inquired of Li Wan, "that that young fellow, with the jade, and that girl, with the golden unicorn round her neck, both of whom are so cleanly and tidy, and have besides ample to eat, are over there conferring about eating raw meat? There they are chatting, saying this and saying that; but I can't see how ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin


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