NEATLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neatly mean? 

• NEATLY (adverb)
  The adverb NEATLY has 1 sense:

1. with neatness

  Familiarity information: NEATLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEATLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With neatness

Context example:

she put the slippers under the bed neatly

Pertainym:

neat (showing care in execution)

 Context examples 

They also thought lysine would often not fit neatly into the chains the way it does in proteins.

(Pre-life building blocks spontaneously align in evolutionary experiment, National Science Foundation)

“Now comes your turn,” said he to the young tailor; “sew the eggs and the young birds in them together again, so neatly that the shot shall have done them no harm.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

So Dorothy took a needle and thread, and as fast as Oz cut the strips of silk into proper shape the girl sewed them neatly together.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

A leather valise stood beside his table, and into this he began to pack very neatly and systematically the precious contents of his safe.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I went up the next by-street, took off my waistcoat, rolled it neatly under my arm, and came back to the shop door.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At the farther end of this forest clearing there stood forty or fifty huts, built very neatly from wood and clay, with the blue smoke curling out from the roofs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The right foot was missing, amputated neatly at the ankle.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was plainly but neatly dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than thirty.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“My view, exactly, and very neatly expressed,” cried Brummell.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It is very neatly tied. I had already made a note to that effect,” said Lestrade complacently.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)