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NEATLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With neatness
Example:
she put the slippers under the bed neatly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
neat (showing care in execution)
Context examples:
Till now she had done well, been prudent and exact, kept her little account books neatly, and showed them to him monthly without fear.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But, in three hours travelling, the scene was wholly altered; we came into a most beautiful country; farmers’ houses, at small distances, neatly built; the fields enclosed, containing vineyards, corn-grounds, and meadows.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
They were neatly done in charcoal upon the white surface, and looked to me at first sight like some sort of rough musical score.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The powders were neatly enough made up, but not with the nicety of the dispensing chemist; so that it was plain they were of Jekyll’s private manufacture; and when I opened one of the wrappers I found what seemed to me a simple crystalline salt of a white colour.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Here's luck, A fair wind, and Billy Bones his fancy, were very neatly and clearly executed on the forearm; and up near the shoulder there was a sketch of a gallows and a man hanging from it—done, as I thought, with great spirit.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Had you seen her this morning, Mary, he continued, attending with such ineffable sweetness and patience to all the demands of her aunt's stupidity, working with her, and for her, her colour beautifully heightened as she leant over the work, then returning to her seat to finish a note which she was previously engaged in writing for that stupid woman's service, and all this with such unpretending gentleness, so much as if it were a matter of course that she was not to have a moment at her own command, her hair arranged as neatly as it always is, and one little curl falling forward as she wrote, which she now and then shook back, and in the midst of all this, still speaking at intervals to me, or listening, and as if she liked to listen, to what I said.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I have seen a great many lists of her drawing-up at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through—and very good lists they were—very well chosen, and very neatly arranged—sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She saw a large, well-proportioned apartment, an handsome dimity bed, arranged as unoccupied with an housemaid's care, a bright Bath stove, mahogany wardrobes, and neatly painted chairs, on which the warm beams of a western sun gaily poured through two sash windows!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
They also thought lysine would often not fit neatly into the chains the way it does in proteins.
(Pre-life building blocks spontaneously align in evolutionary experiment, National Science Foundation)
He put the heart in the Woodman's breast and then replaced the square of tin, soldering it neatly together where it had been cut.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
