clean
/klin/ adj [-er/-est only] (HONEST)Definition
› honest or fair; not breaking rules or laws: "Let’s make it a clean fight," said the referee. Before his conviction for fraud, he had a clean record (= he had not been involved in crime previously). slang They searched him, but he was clean (= he was not carrying anything illegal or not allowed). › Clean also means morally acceptable and not giving offense: clean living a clean joke
(Definition of clean adj (HONEST) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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