clean
adjective
clean people and animals keep themselves and the places where they live clean
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Clean and tidy in appearance
smart
adjective
clean and neat in appearance and dressed in nice fashionable clothes, especially in a slightly formal way
dapper
adjective
a man who is dapper is small and wears attractive clothes that give him a tidy appearance
not have a hair out of place
to look very tidy and clean
vocal fry
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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dray
a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer
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conflict mineral
a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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