The swarthy, slender, tidily groomed ex-AT&T salesman from Oklahoma appeared calm as the verdicts were read.
You know that he must have been a tormented genius, or one for whom everything clicked as tidily as a safety pin.
Hen, it's up to you to wash all the dishes, and to do it tidily, too.
She rose from her seat, and put them all tidily away on a side-table.
They were tidily piled in lines side by side at the forward end of the waggon.
He dined with Captain Fitz Roy, and ate his dinner as tidily as formerly.
A few ravelling threads of this our desultory tale have yet to be gathered up, as tidily as may be.
The people are tidily pious nowadays, those that are left of them, and the living is consequently easy.
She is tidily and even, for a woman of her age, tastefully dressed, but still with a sober decency that showed her good sense.
She was then entreated to dress herself as tidily as possible, but she would only go her own way.
mid-13c., probably originally "in season, timely, opportune, excellent," from tide in the sense of "season, time" (see tide). Cf. Old High German zitig, German zeitig, Dutch tijdig, Danish tidig "timely." Meaning "neat and in order" first recorded 1706.
"to make neat, set in order," 1821, from tidy (adj.). Related: Tidied; tidying.
