apple-pie

[ap-uh l-pahy]

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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 unerring

Examples from the Web for apple-pie

Contemporary Examples

Cancer governs the fourth House of patriotism, and American actors of the sign project an apple-pie image.
Horoscopes July 3-9, 2011
Starsky + Cox
July 2, 2011

Historical Examples

Can he keep things in apple-pie order, and do half a dozen at once?
Farm Ballads
Will Carleton
He surveyed the apple-pie order of the interior with vast satisfaction.
Slaves of Mercury
Nat Schachner
And he was devoted to his books, which were in apple-pie order.
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
I cannot find it among his papers—which, for the rest, are in apple-pie order.
The Adventures of Harry Revel
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Mr. Slee says everything will be in apple-pie order to-morrow.
They and I
Jerome K. Jerome