Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the beard or hair shaved off.
- adjective Having recently shaved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having the surface shaved to smoothness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having no
beard ormustache . - adjective Having had
facial hair completelyremoved .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective closely shaved recently
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Examples
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He was described as clean-shaven, according to the university's website.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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Nevertheless, he was clean-shaven, his hair was cut and his ears were clean.
Stephanie Gertler: Vanishing in New York City Stephanie Gertler 2011
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Brady looked at the tall, gangly man with the rugged, clean-shaven face.
Mathew Brady's photographs made a president, captured reality of Civil War Jacqueline Trescott 2010
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Chesser's yearbook photos show a clean-shaven, pensive-looking young man, the child of divorced parents who lived in Northern Virginia.
Internet helped Muslim convert from Northern Virginia embrace extremism at warp speed Tara Bahrampour 2010
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The boyish, clean-shaven face had given way to a mustache and a goatee.
Guandique sentenced to 60 years for Levy murder Keith L. Alexander 2011
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Nevertheless, he was clean-shaven, his hair was cut and his ears were clean.
Stephanie Gertler: Vanishing in New York City Stephanie Gertler 2011
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"I am a clean-shaven capitalist," Coons replies, which gets a laugh despite his repeating an old line.
Christine O'Donnell debates Chris Coons in Delaware - as it happened Richard Adams 2010
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Nevertheless, he was clean-shaven, his hair was cut and his ears were clean.
Stephanie Gertler: Vanishing in New York City Stephanie Gertler 2011
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Nevertheless, he was clean-shaven, his hair was cut and his ears were clean.
Stephanie Gertler: Vanishing in New York City Stephanie Gertler 2011
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The boyish, clean-shaven face had given way to a mustache and a goatee.
Guandique sentenced to 60 years for Levy murder Keith L. Alexander 2011
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