cleanlyadverb
uk/ˈkliːn.li/us/ˈkliːn.li/cleanly adverb (HONESTLY)
fairly and honestly:
The election campaign was not conducted very cleanly.
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Justice and fairness
- a fair crack of the whip idiom
- all's fair in love and war idiom
- an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) idiom
- balanced
- by rights idiom
- even-handed
- eye
- fair
- fair go
- fair-minded
- fairly
- fairness
- fear
- law
- poetic justice
- pound of flesh idiom
- reap what you have sown idiom
- term
- there's one law for the rich and another for the poor idiom
- without fear or favour idiom
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cleanly adverb (NOT ROUGHLY)
with smooth straight edges:
The plate broke cleanly in half.
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Straight, even and level
- be (as) flat as a pancake idiom
- clean-cut
- consistency
- even
- flat
- flatness
- flush
- glassy
- level
- mellow
- plane
- seamless
- sleek
- smooth
- square
- steady
- straight
- true
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cleanly adverb (EQUALLY)
equally:
Opinions were split cleanly between men and women.
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Honesty, openness & sincerity
- (as) man to man idiom
- above board
- artless
- be on the level idiom
- bona fide
- bone
- in good faith idiom
- integrity
- joke
- joking apart/aside idiom
- let's face it idiom 1
- level with sb
- nail
- stainless
- straight arrow idiom
- straight up idiom
- straightforward
- the straight and narrow idiom
- transparent
- truly
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