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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clean-shaven
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dark-haired, he had shrewd beady eyes, was clean-shaven and showed the beginnings of a jowl.
▪ He has white hair, and he is clean-shaven.
▪ He was clean-shaven and his hair combed perfectly.
▪ He was clean-shaven but only just.
▪ He was clean-shaven yet, even so early in the day, with a blue-black stubble.
▪ She thinks people who are clean-shaven look much smarter.
▪ The dark, clean-shaven face was strong and proud, the mouth firm yet sensitive.
▪ The door opened to reveal a gaunt, clean-shaven man.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
clean-shaven

clean-shaven \clean-shaven\ adj. having the surface shaved to smoothness.

Syn: smooth-shaven, well-shaven.

Wiktionary
clean-shaven

a. 1 (rfm-sense: English) Having no beard or mustache. 2 (rfm-sense: English) Having had facial hair completely removed. alt. 1 (rfm-sense: English) Having no beard or mustache. 2 (rfm-sense: English) Having had facial hair completely removed.

WordNet
clean-shaven

adj. closely shaved recently [syn: smooth-shaven, well-shaven]

Usage examples of "clean-shaven".

With his short, well-groomed black hair, clean-shaven hawklike features that had set many of the women of the court atwitter, quick mind, and a bearing more princely than any prince in the Alliance, it was not at all surprising that everyone involved in the Alterac situation had taken to him, Genn Greymane included.

The Conriyans might look brutish with their beards, especially amid the clean-shaven elegance of the Imperial Nansur Court, but their dress was impeccable.

He was wearing a tuxedo: shorn, clean-shaven, with a white boutonniere tucked into his lapel.

Clothes were colorful, hair and beards generally long, with a sprinkling of clean-shaven cropheads who also tended to wear duller clothes.

He was clean-shaven, with thick black hair tied neatly behind his head, and wore a spotless white Nehru jacket with matching cotton slacks.

A fire burned on the hearth after the fashion of Highland houses even in summer, and before it stood Mr Acheson Bandicott, with a small clean-shaven man, who was obviously the distinguished Professor in whose honour the feast was given, and Colonel Raden, a picturesque figure in kilt and velvet doublet, who seemed hard put to it to follow what was clearly a technical colloquy.

But as he walked out the door of the bunk room, a Micaszian with two fat purple sidelocks hanging over the right side of his otherwise clean-shaven skull shoved him back roughly.

SS Sergeant Major Gunther Sturm strut before the ragged assembly, his face clean-shaven for once, his lank blond hair combed across his bullet-shaped head.

What first fastened my attention was this vague, unfocussed, roving, quasi-introspective vision flashing with panther-like suddenness into a directness that seemed to burn and pierce one like the thrust of a hot stiletto, His face was clean-shaven, save for a mere thumb-mark of black hair directly under the centre of his lower lip.

Felix and Ruy were leaner, taller, clean-shaven versions of their papa, but their personal styles were so at variance, they seemed dissimilar.

With their short statures, full sideburns, and clean-shaven faces, the two professors were physically similar.

He was tall and slightly plump, in his fifties, clean-shaven and neatly barbered if a little rumpled looking in brown corduroy slacks and a green and red flannel shirt.

Master Geoffrey Corviser, named for his trade, was a big, portly, vigorous man not yet fifty, clean-shaven, brisk and dignified.

But at the doorway stood a figure that Landry recognised at once--a small man, lean-faced, trimly dressed, his clean-shaven lips pursed like the mouth of a shut money bag, imperturbable as ever, cold, unexcited--Calvin Crookes himself.

His red hair had faded to a dirty white, he was clean-shaven and his skin was dry and loose, mottled with age spots rather than freckles.