• Synonyms: cleanliness
  Meaning: diligence in keeping clean
• Synonyms: cleanliness
  Meaning: the habit of keeping free of superficial imperfections

• Vermin revel in filth, and their extirpation depends mainly on cleanliness.
• Indeed, nothing is more essential to the health and efficiency of all dogs than pure air and cleanliness.
• "The treatment consists in careful nursing and cleanliness, keeping the animal moderately warm and comfortable.
• In the same manner, says he, as want of cleanliness, decency, or discretion in a mistress are found to alienate our affections.
• Warmth, cleanliness, broth, and beef-tea, are the chief items of treatment, with a dose of castor oil if constipation is present.
• Let them bring me a comb here, or what they please, and curry this beard of mine, and if they get anything out of it that offends against cleanliness, let them clip me to the skin."
• "It's the difference between dirt and cleanliness," said Paul. "Besides, as I told you at the outset, Mr. Finn and I are close personal friends, and I have the highest regard for his character.
• My estheticism is very pronounced as compared with most of the men with whom I associate, although I have never been able to give it much scope. It makes for cleanliness, order, and general good taste.
• On attention to cleanliness depends, in some degree, the dog's exquisite sense of smelling; for, if accustomed to strong or disagreeable effluvia, he will be but ill-adapted to trace the fall of a deer, or scent of a fox.
• It may well be thought that her heart sank when she saw the enormity of the task that lay before her, for she had been sent to bring order from chaos, plenty from want, comfort from torture and cleanliness from wholesale filth.

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