clean
adjective
free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained.
overclean
-
a word derived from
clean.
Example Sentences
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In his red shirt and coarse breeches, and brown, not overclean skin, he certainly didn't look much like a gentleman in the conventional sense of that term.
From Joe's Luck Always Wide Awake by Horatio Alger
It was small, not overclean and most inconvenient.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford
It was by no means overclean and she wondered with misgivings what the man did with it.
From A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss
Moore, standing, one fat and not overclean hand on the table, looked a passionate gratitude to her.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
Towards eleven o'clock a large number of peasants had arrived, and the altar was covered with not a fair white cloth as usual, but with something suspiciously resembling a long and not overclean towel.
From The Land of the Black Mountain The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro by Reginald Wyon
