Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a neat manner; with neatness, in any sense of that word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a neat manner; tidily; tastefully.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
neat manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with neatness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Smiling and whistling, Igor handed me Aunt Peg, now reduced to a square box with her name neatly printed on top.
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Smiling and whistling, Igor handed me Aunt Peg, now reduced to a square box with her name neatly printed on top.
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Smiling and whistling, Igor handed me Aunt Peg, now reduced to a square box with her name neatly printed on top.
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Smiling and whistling, Igor handed me Aunt Peg, now reduced to a square box with her name neatly printed on top.
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The pacing's solid pulp, and the title neatly fits in any noir collection.
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As with the four that had preceded it, the letter was addressed to Detective Stephen Louis Carella, the name neatly typewritten on the face of the envelope.
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The walls had been lined by the nuns with plain wooden shelves, and upon them were what seemed to be a thousand books, every one in a grey linen wrapper, with the title neatly written on a white label pasted on the back.
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For them, the term neatly encapsulates a narrative of moral degeneration that is so broad as to effectively include any representation or discussion of sex, sexuality and relationships, whatever the context.
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The label neatly evades the question of whether having the government borrow money and spend it is actually a way of getting out of a recession-a claim for which evidence is distinctly thin.
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The label neatly evades the question of whether having the government borrow money and spend it is actually a way of getting out of a recession -- a claim for which evidence is distinctly thin.
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