cleanness

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Recent Examples of cleanness In Experiment City, scientific progress and a collective ethos have had counterintuitive social consequences: Citizens occupy uniform studio apartments, becoming increasingly insular and fastidious about the cleanness of their bodies. Madeleine Feeny, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025 The home support, angry at referee Rob Jones throughout, could barely muster an appeal for a penalty given the cleanness of the challenge. Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025 Copland’s music has a cleanness, a belief that all the parts must function. Jane Levere, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024 With her brand new red locks separated in a half-up half-down style, Fox brilliantly combines the chaos of a messy bun with the cleanness of parted face-framing strands. Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023 Our special boosters powerfully break through any type of stain or odor, giving you an all-natural cleanness that leaves your clothes looking and smelling great. Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023 The sparseness of the production design and cleanness of the editing permit Adkins and Long’s full-tilt gracefulness to be the scene’s primary focus. Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023 His style prized cleanness, and secure but never imperious beauty. Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Mar. 2022 The reasons include not just gas's relative abundance and cheapness, its cleanness, and its low carbon content compared with coal, but also its flexibility, as a recent Worldwatch report observes. IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2010
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cleanness
Noun
  • The inspector also noted a cockroach infestation and an overall lack of cleanliness throughout the facility.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
  • At its core, this transit is a reminder that clarity is power and in Virgo’s world, cleanliness really is next to godliness.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Shrines appear on corners, balconies, and walls, quietly imposing ideals of purity, sacrifice, and silence.
    Vogue, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
  • If something challenges your heart and your soul and your mind and your sense of purity of what is right and wrong in the world, then just say no.
    Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That emphasis on originality over polish may come as a surprise to students trained to maximize correctness and minimize risk.
    Liz Doe Stone, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Anyone who diverges from progressive orthodoxy is excluded from faculty ranks, free inquiry is subordinated to activism, and taxpayer funds flow into administrative bureaucracies that enforce political correctness.
    Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In an unprecedented breach of law and decency, the president is threatening to send federal forces to our city, in an unironic attempt to combat nonexistent lawlessness in Chicago.
    Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Some feel the lines of basic human decency have eroded.
    Annie Heilbrunn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • By war’s end he was not only convinced of the moral rightness of Black suffrage and civil rights, but of their essential necessity and urgency.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Throughout the crisis, her burgeoning friendship with the hostage’s wife, challenges Barb’s usual sense of propriety and self-containment.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This is a regimented world driven by ritual and propriety and a fear of seeming out of step.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025

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“Cleanness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleanness. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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