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Cleanly   /klˈinli/   Listen
Cleanly

adverb
1.
In an adroit manner.  Synonym: flawlessly.
2.
In a manner that minimizes dirt and pollution.
3.
Without difficulty or distortion.
adjective
(compar. cleanlier; superl. cleanliest)
1.
Habitually clean.






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... illustration is large enough for the usual size of dog. It is cleanly, healthful and more ornamental ...
— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics

... of less breadth and length: there were in it some five or six and fifty households; which were kept so clean and sweet, that not only the houses, but the very streets were very pleasant to behold. In this town we saw they lived very civilly and cleanly. For as soon as we came thither, they washed themselves in the river; and changed their apparel, as also their women do wear, which was very fine and fitly made somewhat after the Spanish fashion, though nothing so ...
— Sir Francis Drake Revived • Philip Nichols

... Brahman ascetic's vows are almost identical with those of the Jain ascetic. He vows not to injure living beings, not to lie, not to steal, to be continent, to be liberal; with the five minor vows, not to get angry, to obey the Teacher, not to be rash, to be cleanly and pure in eating.[23] To this ascetic order in the Brahman priesthood may be traced the origin of the heretical monks. Even in the Br[a]hmanas occur the termini technici of the Buddhist priesthood, notably the Cramana or ascetic monk, and the word buddha, 'awakened' (pratibudh). The 'four ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins

... neckcloth, clean indeed, but not tied with that scrupulous care which now distinguishes some of our younger clergy. He was, of course, always clothed in a seemly suit of solemn black. Mr. Staple was a decent cleanly liver, not over-addicted to any sensuality; but nevertheless a somewhat warmish hue was beginning to adorn his nose, the peculiar effect, as his friends averred, of a certain pipe of port introduced into the cellars of Lazarus ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope

... interruptions, for several months. More than one townsman declared that so intolerable a nuisance must be abated, but no one liked to be the first to stir in such an unpleasant business, and the bacchanalians continued to "vex with mirth the drowsy ear of night," unchecked by more cleanly-living citizens. But just about the time when these carousings had become absolutely intolerable to the community, they were put a stop to without any ...
— The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales • John Charles Dent


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