neatness
IPA: nˈitnʌs
noun
- The state of being neat.
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Examples of "neatness" in Sentences
- Even his mom is cloying at his neatness.
- * Make your entry way a priority in neatness and cleanliness.
- The School endeavours to inculcate habits of cleanliness and neatness.
- It’s not that extreme, to be honest, although the neatness is somewhat scary.
- 'How simple and manly!' she cried: 'none of that effeminacy of neatness, which is so detestable in a man!'
- Sponsored by publisher Little, Brown and Co., the competition promoted "A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder," by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman, a new book that argues neatness is overrated, costs money, wastes time and quashes creativity.
- In this conveniency of lodging that I desire, I mix nothing of pomp and amplitude -- I hate it rather; but a certain plain neatness, which is oftenest found in places where there is less of art, and that Nature has adorned with some grace that is all her own:
- Barry Wise was dressed in his usual coat and tie-his neatness was another leftover from the Marines-and he knocked on the door, finding the expected local-he was tempted to call them "natives," but that was too English, and distantly racist-at the door to conduct them in.
- The upper garment of the females, besides being cut according to a regular and uniform pattern, and sewed with exceeding neatness, which is the case with all the dresses of these people, has also the flaps ornamented in a very becoming manner by a neat border of deerskin, so arranged as to display alternate breadths of white and dark fur.
- The upper garment of the females, besides being cut according to a regular and uniform pattern, and sewed with exceeding neatness, which is the case with all the dresses of these people, has also the flaps ornamented in a very becoming manner by a neat border of deer-skin, so arranged as to display alternate breadths of white and dark fur.