squeaky-clean
adjective
1
: completely clean
squeaky-clean hair
2
: completely free from moral taint of any kind
a squeaky-clean reputation
Examples of squeaky-clean in a Sentence
feeling squeaky-clean and smelling nice after her bath
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Just rinse with water to reveal a squeaky-clean complexion.
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Kiana Murden, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2025
Domestic violence quashed a squeaky-clean image that had once been suitable for Doublemint-gum ads, necessitating a new musical calculus that took a few spins to nail.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
The fact that Earhart started out as Putnam's mistress contradicted Shapiro's early squeaky-clean image of Earhart and drove her to delve deeper into the life of this extraordinary woman.
—ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
Water-ski shows became emblematic of a certain squeaky-clean breed of American pop culture.
—Betsy Golden Kellem, JSTOR Daily, 27 Aug. 2025
His rendition of the talk show is innately subversive, at direct odds with the squeaky-clean, white-bread humor that is typical of its cable counterpart.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
Luckily, this nose mask utilizes both chemical and physical exfoliation to make your pores appear squeaky-clean.
—Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 4 Aug. 2025
What did not change from when I had been billed, just days earlier, for coverage for the older car were my age, my squeaky-clean driving record, the ZIP Code where the car resides or State Farm’s liability for injury or damage in an accident.
—Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2025
Beyond long-running The Lawrence Welk Show, which debuted on ABC on this day in 1955, Welk was a bandleader, an accordion player, and a shrewd businessman synonymous with squeaky-clean (and older-skewing) entertainment.
—Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
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Kiana Murden, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2025
Domestic violence quashed a squeaky-clean image that had once been suitable for Doublemint-gum ads, necessitating a new musical calculus that took a few spins to nail.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
The fact that Earhart started out as Putnam's mistress contradicted Shapiro's early squeaky-clean image of Earhart and drove her to delve deeper into the life of this extraordinary woman.
—ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
Water-ski shows became emblematic of a certain squeaky-clean breed of American pop culture.
—Betsy Golden Kellem, JSTOR Daily, 27 Aug. 2025
His rendition of the talk show is innately subversive, at direct odds with the squeaky-clean, white-bread humor that is typical of its cable counterpart.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
Luckily, this nose mask utilizes both chemical and physical exfoliation to make your pores appear squeaky-clean.
—Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 4 Aug. 2025
What did not change from when I had been billed, just days earlier, for coverage for the older car were my age, my squeaky-clean driving record, the ZIP Code where the car resides or State Farm’s liability for injury or damage in an accident.
—Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2025
Beyond long-running The Lawrence Welk Show, which debuted on ABC on this day in 1955, Welk was a bandleader, an accordion player, and a shrewd businessman synonymous with squeaky-clean (and older-skewing) entertainment.
—Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
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“Squeaky-clean.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squeaky-clean. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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