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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clean-cut
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wholesome/clean-cut image (=morally good and never doing anything bad)
▪ The recent scandal has damaged his clean-cut image.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a handsome, clean-cut man
▪ Where Clinton was rugged and earthy, Gore is clean-cut and preppy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Columbus is played by unknown George Corraface, a handsome young thing in the time-honoured, clean-cut movie mould.
▪ In the Club section was a tall and clean-cut young man who had made the flight after connecting from Houston.
▪ The first impression is of a clean-cut man, graciously mannered, immaculately turned out.
▪ There are square miles of shifting, sinking sand where the normally clean-cut edge between sea and land has become blurred.
▪ There is, however, a smattering of clean-cut dentists, engineers and teachers thrown in.
▪ Those dealing with heart disease have looked for such clean-cut results in vain.
▪ Women are more attracted to men with clean-cut good looks than their hairier counterparts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clean-cut

Clean-cut \Clean"-cut`\ (kl[=e]n"k[u^]t), a. See Clear-cut.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clean-cut

"precise," 1829 (of turf), from clean (adv.) + past participle of cut (v.).

Wiktionary
clean-cut

a. Having a neat, smart appearance

WordNet
clean-cut
  1. adj. (of persons) neat and smart in appearance; "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap" [syn: trig, trim]

  2. clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible; "as clear as a whistle"; "clear footprints in the snow"; "the letter brought back a clear image of his grandfather"; "a spire clean-cut against the sky"; "a clear-cut pattern" [syn: clear, clear-cut]

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Clean-cut

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Usage examples of "clean-cut".

Brad, the bad actor, and the poor souls who were being paid to act like clean-cut criminals.

Although the face was somewhat obscured by the wide brim of a hat, Canfield noticed that the features were sharp, aquiline, clean-cut.

Specimen of young deskbound Naval intelligence executive: coarse-minded, clean-cut, a gentleman to the ignorant eye.

Fireplaces of clean-cut white marble held vast arrays of lilies, while bowls of golden roses scented the air from fruitwood side tables.

His face was pleasant rather than handsome, he wore glasses to work, and he was thin enough and clean-cut enough to look sort of nebbishy in a white shirt and tie.

They stood amidst stupefying constructions of gleaming metallic shapes, walls of light, and what looked like clean-cut massifs, as big as buildings, of internally glowing crystal.

Just the usual collection of sales figures and market strategies, with several photos of clean-cut looking blood donors being bled, a mobile blood bank with the Euro Plasma logo on the side, and earnest technicians looking at test tubes full of blood and doing things with unknown medical equipment in which Drummond had no particular interest.

The timing's fortuitous, because Goto Furudenendu has just come in with a posse of what Randy guesses are civil engineers: healthy-looking, clean-cut Nipponese men in their thirties.

Afterward he would demand of me why a clean-cut young fellow with everything in his favour would wreck his chances by marrying a girl who was obviously a dumb cluck and would simply hold him back from real success in the corporation?

Don Exbridge likes him because he's clean-cut and good with people - the result of having been a hotel desk clerk, I suppose.

He had once been an altar boy at Saint Rose of Lima Church in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and there were traces of that still in him: There was now, as then, a suggestion that just beneath the clean-cut, innocent surface, was an alter ego with horns itching for the chance to jump out and do something forbidden.

The German soldiers by the innumerable sentry-boxes looked strangely like German toys, and the clean-cut battlements of the castle, gilded by the sunshine, looked the more like the gilt gingerbread.

Even belonged to a club -- the Club of Corset Salesmen of the Empire State -- clean-cut competitors meeting and shaking hands -- and liking it.

The Suits at the ad agency hyped what their demographics told them to: that upper middle-class whites were their target audience, blue-eyed, clean-cut, blond.

At the adjoining table—two tables, actually, that had been pulled together—were a dozen or so twentysomethings, clean-cut boys and girls who were given to hugging one another and jabbered away madly, eagerly, leaning forward and gesturing with bottles, cigarettes.