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spotless

 adjective
     
spot‧less
1 completely clean [↪ pristine]:
a spotless white handkerchief
The house was bright and absolutely spotless.
2 if someone has a spotless reputation or record, people know or think they have never done anything bad:
a company whose reputation was spotless until this scandal broke
—spotlessly adverb:
The whole house was spotlessly clean.
WORD FOCUS: clean WORD FOCUS: clean
very clean: spotless, pristine, immaculate, spick and span

➔ See also clean
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