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squeaky-clean

[skwee-kee-kleen]

adjective

Informal.
  1. scrupulously clean.

  2. virtuous, wholesome, and above reproach.

    a squeaky-clean reputation.



squeaky-clean

adjective

  1. (of hair) washed so clean that wet strands squeak when rubbed

  2. completely clean

  3. informalĢż(of a person) cultivating a virtuous and wholesome image

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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John does discuss his history with drug abuse and his coming out story in the doc, but both of those matters are largely sanitized, seemingly to avoid anything that might not fit with the House of Mouse’s squeaky-clean image.

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One candidate has been convicted of multiple felonies and found liable for sexual assault by a civil jury — and those things are perceived as political advantages against a squeaky-clean former prosecutor whose Black-Indian-Jewish blended family appears to have been carefully cast for a car-insurance commercial.

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The spoof opens with the squeaky-clean Manning playing touch football with the group, encouraging everyone in the huddle to practice teamwork and have fun.

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Garvey cultivated a squeaky-clean, all-American image as a player, and has campaigned as a ā€œrole modelā€ and ā€œdevoted family man.ā€

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While Mitchell, Gallagher and Rosman said they sometimes wished they could have been on an edgier show and that they experienced similar pangs of wanting to break free from their squeaky-clean TV images during production, they never followed through the way Biel did.

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What doesĢżsqueaky-clean mean?

Squeaky-clean means completely clean—as clean as possible.The term comes from the squeaky sound that often happens when you run your finger over a smooth, clean surface, like a countertop of a windowpane, or when you rub a strand of wet hair after it’s been washed.Squeaky-clean is also commonly used in a figurative way to describe someone who is known for having a wholesome and virtuous reputation. It can also be used to describe such a reputation or the actions of such a person.When it’s used in this way, squeaky-clean can be used both positively and negatively. When used positively, it typically indicates that someone is completely honorable and upstanding, as in Unfortunately for his enemies, the mayor is squeaky-clean—they’ll never be able to dig up any dirt on him. However, it often implies that a person’s reputation or public image is fake, artificial, or has been constructed to hide what they’re really like. It can also be used to imply that such virtuousness is excessive or irritating, as in I can’t understand why kids enjoy these squeaky-clean boy bands—what happened to teenage rebellion and rock-’n’-roll?Both senses of squeaky-clean are used informally.Example: The floors in my mother-in-law’s house are always so squeaky-clean that you could eat off of them.

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