1. cleanly - Adjective
2. cleanly - Adverb
4. cleanly - Adjective Satellite
Habitually clean; pure; innocent.
Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc.
Adroit; skillful; dexterous; artful.
In a clean manner; neatly.
Adroitly; dexterously.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received. John le Carré
Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike. Robert Graves
I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase. Jennifer Aniston
To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned, To my brethren in their sorrow overseas, Sings a gentleman of England cleanly bred, machinely crammed, And a trooper of the Empress, if you please. Rudyard Kipling
The style in which it was written told me much: I found that a man who cannot phrase his thoughts cleanly on paper probably has no thoughts worth notice. Robert Silverberg
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. Paul Gallico