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Johnson, it is well known, was often shabby and negligent in his dress, and not overcleanly in his person.

From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Irving, Washington

They consider us as not overcleanly, because they see us make less use than they of the bath....

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen