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Definition of "cleanliness" []

  • The property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene (noun)

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Use "cleanliness" in a sentence
  • "Her temper is beyond imagination, her avarice monstrous, her madness about what she calls cleanliness, to a degree of distraction; if I had not first, and then made your brother Ned interpose in form, she would once or twice a week have the very closet washed in which your brother sleeps after dinner."
  • "That “cleanliness is next to Godliness”, OCD thing, you know."
  • "But what these students lack in cleanliness they make up for in charm, right?"