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The Collaborative International Dictionary
clean-living

clean-living \clean-living\ adj. living in a manner above moral reproach; especially, abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse and excessive drunkenness.

Syn: chaste.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clean-living

1920, from clean (adv.) + live (v.).

WordNet
clean-living

adj. morally pure; "led a clean life" [syn: clean]

Usage examples of "clean-living".

He'd even bicycled home from school, he's such a good, clean-living simple country kid.

But being an alert and clean-living type of girl who's always right in there polishing the apple and bucking for a raise, I'd probably go ahead and call the Norman Agency, since you're not here to do it.