Clean
Smart
Smart adjective - Being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance.
Usage example: dressed in their smart new uniforms, the cadets proudly paraded around the grounds of the military school
Clean and smart are semantically related in shiny topic. Sometimes you can use "Clean" instead an adjective "Smart".
Both words in one sentence
- In actuality, he dressed exactly the same as L, and is way too clean (and too smart) to run around in bloodstained clothes.
Source: Fanon / Anime and Manga - There are cases of vampires killing other vampires, but smart ones do it in secret and clean up the mess afterwards.
Source: Ape Shall Never Kill Ape -
One Courtroom Antic later, and Moist sees the only truly smart move to play is to come clean and confess to his past crimes.
Source: Discworld / Making Money
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