Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Neatly; with simplicity and suitability: as, a tidily dressed girl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a tidy manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
tidy manner,neatly ,cleanly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a tidy manner
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Examples
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Of course, no movement unfolds as neatly and tidily as things do in this model.
Parker J. Palmer: Real-World Change Can Come From Within Parker J. Palmer 2012
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Of course, no movement unfolds as neatly and tidily as things do in this model.
Parker J. Palmer: Real-World Change Can Come From Within Parker J. Palmer 2012
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She watched Anthony reading a single, tidily filled page.
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Of course, no movement unfolds as neatly and tidily as things do in this model.
Parker J. Palmer: Real-World Change Can Come From Within Parker J. Palmer 2012
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Once long, sometimes plaited, her hair was tidily drawn back.
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All tidily wrapped up in this rant which, if you're in a mood for reading a rant, will satisfy your itch.
kateelliott: Someone Else's Rant on the Internet is Worth Reading kateelliott 2009
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This all fit tidily into the narrative that the war was a conspiracy run by a Dick Cheney-Don Rumsfeld shadow government.
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Wemple went down, returning in several minutes with a tidily-paunched, well-built, gray-haired American of fifty.
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All tidily wrapped up in this rant which, if you're in a mood for reading a rant, will satisfy your itch.
Someone Else's Rant on the Internet is Worth Reading kateelliott 2009
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Most stories do something satisfying with the mess of tedium and violence that is living; they give it focus and form, tone it up, calm it down, shape it tidily, fluff it or primp it or tame its wilder edges, until you have something sleek and purring in your hands, rather than the slightly unkempt beast that life usually resembles, with a tendency to charge at you out of dark places.
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