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Neat

adjective

Clean or organized. Synonym: orderly. "A neat room"

Showing care in execution. "Neat handwriting"

Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming. Synonyms: refined, tasteful. "A neat set of rules" , "She hated to have her neat plans upset"

Free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed. Synonym: clean. "A clean throw" , "The neat exactness of the surgeon's knife"

Very good. Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell. "A neat sports car" , "Had a great time at the party" , "You look simply smashing"

Without water. Synonyms: full-strength, straight.

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"Neat" Quotes from Famous Books

... Maurice!" She had folded the veil to a neat square, stuck three hatpins in it, and thrown it with her hat and jacket on the sofa. "No one has tried to murder me," she said, and raised both her hands to her hair. "I was standing before Haase's window—the big jeweller's in the PETERSTRASSE, you know. I've ...

— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson

... the gastric blood-vessels, increased secretion of gastric juice, and greater activity in the movements of the muscular layers in the wall of the stomach. It also tends to lessen the sensibility of the stomach and so may relieve gastric pain. In a 50% solution or stronger—as when neat whisky is taken—alcohol precipitates the pepsin which is an essential of gastric digestion, and thereby arrests this process. The desirable effects produced by alcohol on the stomach are worth obtaining only in cases of acute diseases. In chronic disease and in health the use of alcohol as an ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... rather less than two hours earlier on the same evening that Quentin Gray came out of the confectioner's shop in old Bond Street carrying a neat parcel. Yellow dusk was closing down upon this bazaar of the New Babylon, and many of the dealers in precious gems, vendors of rich stuffs, and makers of modes had already deserted their shops. Smartly dressed show-girls, saleswomen, girl clerks and others ...

— Dope • Sax Rohmer

... details of the home life, he may face the world in later years a worthy example of uprightness to all with whom he comes in contact. If he has learned to be habitually kind and courteous in the home, he is the same wherever he may be. If he always appears neat and tidy in the home, these pleasing characteristics will remain ...

— Stories Worth Rereading • Various

... off the veil, and the sticky gloves from her cold hands, and all the finery of silk waist and belt, and donned her old plain blue coat and skirt in which she had arrived in Philadelphia. They had been frugally brushed and sponged, and made neat for a working dress. Elizabeth felt that they belonged to her. Under the jacket, which fortunately was long enough to hide her waist, she buckled her belt with the two pistols. Then she took the battered old felt hat from the ...

— The Girl from Montana • Grace Livingston Hill

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