scrubbed
adjective
stunted; scrubby.
well-scrubbed
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a word derived from
scrubbed.
Example Sentences
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In 1957, the Music Center was a dream, Dorothy Chandler having only begun fundraising two years earlier for an arts Olympus on a well-scrubbed Grand Avenue that would harken a new business district.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2025
For all its well-scrubbed chastity, the series marked a quietly subversive departure from the standard television fare of the day.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2022
It sent me back to the early 2000s and the debuts of Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer — puppyish, well-scrubbed, twee.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021
“It was like the finger of fate pointed at me,” she explains to me in the museum’s cafe, with well-scrubbed hands and a slightly rueful smile.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 4, 2018
The meal was served by three novices, well-scrubbed girls of good birth between the ages of twelve and sixteen.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
