What's the difference between neatly and tidily?

Neatly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a neat manner; tidily; tastefully.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
  • (2) Ms neatly sidesteps the question of whether or not you are married.
  • (3) This instrument, a modification of a corneal trephine, provides a neat, smooth groove of adjustable depth.
  • (4) But it's still a neat model to watch – and admire.
  • (5) Pitched as a "smart" calendar, it's easy to create appointments and events, and ties in neatly with the developer's separate Any.do to-do lists app.
  • (6) Whether your greatest need is to have a neatly typed letter or an accurately aged accounts receivable report, or it's critical that you create an electronic medical record for decision support, the computer in the medical workplace should: 1.
  • (7) That would neatly end the “fellow traveller” veto, by putting both of the EU’s rogue states in special measures.
  • (8) His neat nails were polished like pebbles and his voice had a soothing, almost balsamic, tone.
  • (9) Toure then lofts a very neat ball over the defence and, though two City players are offside, Aguero is on.
  • (10) Addition of albumin to the serum inhibited the reactivity with both neat and drug-treated serum.
  • (11) Taylor, a sixty-something man with a neatly trimmed beard and a palpable pride in his business, has made "a couple of small sales" so far today, but footfall in the town is pretty underwhelming, and, in the market, almost non-existent.
  • (12) On one side of the road stands an orderly row of RDP houses, their gable ends neatly rendered in pastel shades of peach and tangerine.
  • (13) If his life unspools in the arch, neat fashion of one of his movies then the director Wes Anderson , who'll turn 45 this spring, is halfway through.
  • (14) It is related to physical and physiological factors that derive from the volume of tissue transplanted, the neatness of its fit into the wound, its supportive facilities, its functional activity, its relation to gravity, and the effect of its perimeter scar tissue bed and venous drainage system.
  • (15) Or as Rowan Blanchard , a 13-year-old actress, neatly put it, “the way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different from the way a white woman experiences sexism and inequality”.
  • (16) Photograph: Alan Richardson for the Guardian Watt’s wife, Johanna Basford, whose rise has neatly paralleled his (she is the author and illustrator of a phenomenally successful series of adult colouring books that have so far sold 15m copies) also told me at the launch: “They work harder than anyone I know.
  • (17) President Obama's speech on Thursday seemed to put a neat bow on the past four years.
  • (18) When Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Midan Giza, a traffic-snarled interchange on the west bank of the Nile, for Friday prayers, he saw a graphic illustration of Egypt under President Hosni Mubarak: neat rows of police and plainclothes security officers lining the streets to maintain calm.
  • (19) Photograph: AFP Saint Laurent became an object of immediate fascination: quiet, timid, with neatly parted schoolboy hair, anxious eyes lurking behind thick glasses and a frail body encased in a tight black suit.
  • (20) Apart from an early chance for Nicklas Bendtner, who had one-twoed neatly with Cesc Fábregas, there was not a moment when Arsenal were properly in the game.

Tidily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a tidy manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 31-year-old who materialised last week was smartly, if anonymously, dressed in black trousers and grey jacket, his hair tidily cut.
  • (2) It was the numbers and sheer youth of these peaceful demonstrators, umbrellas held aloft to ward off teargas and pepper spray, as they confronted – peacefully, tidily and very, very politely – the wrath of Beijing.
  • (3) The midfielder tidily trapped Jonas Olsson’s clearance before letting rip with a shot of such velocity that not even Ben Foster’s fingertips could prevent it from finding the top-right corner.
  • (4) But it is naive to suggest that the broad divisions within the party will tidily melt away if the remain camp prevails on 23 June.
  • (5) But when his big chance came, as Arsenal suffered a few mad moments before the interval, he tucked a first goal of the season tidily past Petr Cech.
  • (6) It is naive to suggest that the broad divisions within the party will tidily melt away if the remain camp prevails Naturally, this intervention has been dismissed by leavers as just another chapter of Project Fear.
  • (7) One wild cross, though, and might have scored with a header Jonny Evans 7 Distribution was a couple of notches below the quality of his defending, notably in the first half, but a reliable presence Nemanja Vidic 7 Decent, no-frills defending, doing well in the air against Giroud, but forced off at half-time with a head injury Patrice Evra 6 The left-back was troubled by Sagna in the second half, with several crosses coming into United's box from his flank Phil Jones 8 Fantastic first half in midfield, defending well and breaking at times, and good when pushed into central defence after that Michael Carrick 6 Could not stem as much of the passing as he would have liked but calm, used the ball tidily and broke up play on occasion Antonio Valencia 6 Involved only in little bursts but his pace occasionally stretched Arsenal and the winger provided a handful of dangerous crosses Wayne Rooney 8 Muscular, non-stop effort.
  • (8) Kyle Beckerman sat in front of the defense tidily enough, and provided the occasional first time ball to show his vision is one of his most underrated qualities, while fellow deep midfielder Mix Diskerud, was probably a net negative for not doing much wrong, but not doing much to seize control of the game either, as this particular audition might have demanded of him.
  • (9) He had felt very odd, got a neighbour to ring for the doctor and stepped tidily into the ambulance and out of the world.
  • (10) But then Selby spots a plant to nothing and tidily pulls it off.
  • (11) We still have five minutes, I said, and you know it, so come, leave your gun tidily under your chair.

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