Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an antiseptic manner; by the application of antiseptics.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By means of antiseptics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
antiseptic manner. - adverb Regarding
antisepsis .
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Examples
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What economists antiseptically call "asymmetric shocks" are the Achilles' heel of a currency union—and they are bound to occur now and then.
The Euro Zone's German Crisis Alan S. Blinder 2011
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A second point of contention concerns the problem of unintended victims, or what international law antiseptically calls "collateral damage."
Gabor Rona: Wanted: More Light, Less Heat About Drone Attacks Gabor Rona 2011
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There is a computer monitor embedded in the console, and an antiseptically white keyboard on the stainless counter.
The Temptress Hugh Barlow 2011
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The BBC, reporting on this story, referred antiseptically to Jerusalem's Old City, "which was under Jordanian rule from 1948 until the 1967 Israeli-Arab war, when Israel occupied the eastern side of Jerusalem ...."
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The BBC, reporting on this story, referred antiseptically to Jerusalem's Old City, "which was under Jordanian rule from 1948 until the 1967 Israeli-Arab war, when Israel occupied the eastern side of Jerusalem ...."
O Jerusalem 2010
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The history he unfolds, cleanly if a little antiseptically, involves the stop-and-start evolution of Wall Street from a band of poorly capitalized partnerships offering some advice, some underwriting services and some trading to the global, highly interconnected, technologically sophisticated money (or doomsday) machines of today.
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In order to restore that credibility, we have to end the practice of hiding opaque derivatives in invisible accounts antiseptically labeled "Structured Investment Vehicles."
Biden To Wall-Street-Friendly Democrats: The Middle Class Comes First 2010
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He has a tendency -- the president has a tendency to be a little bit dispassionate at times so his natural inclination is to look intellectual, to look at things antiseptically.
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In order to restore that credibility, we have to end the practice of hiding opaque derivatives in invisible accounts antiseptically labeled "Structured Investment Vehicles."
Biden To Wall-Street-Friendly Democrats: The Middle Class Comes First 2010
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The history he unfolds, cleanly if a little antiseptically, involves the stop-and-start evolution of Wall Street from a band of poorly capitalized partnerships offering some advice, some underwriting services and some trading to the global, highly interconnected, technologically sophisticated money (or doomsday) machines of today.
Robert Teitelman: Paper Fortunes : A Half Century of Wall Street 2010
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