clean
adjective
free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained.
overclean
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a word derived from
clean.
Example Sentences
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Anxious knots were at every station and water tank, and not overclean hands were thrust into the windows, with the cry: "Airy paper?"
From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon
He leant forward and prodded the table with a short, stout finger--not overclean according to the ideas of a later time.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman
It was small, not overclean and most inconvenient.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford
A wide plank ranged on either side, and a few not overclean quilts served for a bed.
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair
It was by no means overclean and she wondered with misgivings what the man did with it.
From A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss
