apple-pie
[ap-uh l-pahy]
adjective
pertaining to or embodying traditional American values: apple-pie virtues; an apple-pie issue that no politician could vote against.
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precise, unblemished, exquisite, immaculate, accurate, aces, clean, correct, exact, faultless, infallible, innocent, irreproachable, nice, perfect, pure, right, sinless, stainless, unerringExamples from the Web for apple-pie
Contemporary Examples of apple-pie
Cancer governs the fourth House of patriotism, and American actors of the sign project an apple-pie image.
Historical Examples of apple-pie
Can he keep things in apple-pie order, and do half a dozen at once?
Farm BalladsWill Carleton
He surveyed the apple-pie order of the interior with vast satisfaction.
Slaves of MercuryNat Schachner
And he was devoted to his books, which were in apple-pie order.
Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad
I cannot find it among his papers—which, for the rest, are in apple-pie order.
The Adventures of Harry RevelSir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Mr. Slee says everything will be in apple-pie order to-morrow.
They and IJerome K. Jerome