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clear-cut | American Dictionary

clear-cut
adjective
us/ˈklɪərˈkʌt/
not having any characteristics that would cause doubt or uncertainty:
It was a clear-cut case of fraud.

Examples of clear-cut

clear-cut
It really seemed a clear-cut and unambiguous test.
I, for one, would not enter such a debate with a clear-cut and definite idea of my own position on it.
That is uncertainty to such a degree that it prevents a clear-cut decision, but whose resolution will enable a definite decision to be made.
Even in this period, however, its meaning was neither wholly clear-cut nor static.
How can this therapist-client epistemological incompatibility - apparently a clear-cut prescription for therapeutic failure - be traversed or at least mitigated?
And according to this proposal, there will be many cases in which the existence of a law is less than clear-cut.
There exists a clear-cut distinction between will and be going to in their most obvious uses.
Previous, often intensive control programmes have foundered, and we cannot point to a clear-cut example of successful large-scale scrapie control.
In spite of having fewer power resources, client organisations with clear-cut interests may well be more important in explaining the variance between programmes.
Qualitative differences are most clear-cut for slipped and painted vases.
Changing the perspective to an outsider's view reverses the "charity" inherent in this interpretation into a clear-cut sentence against these postulates.
However, there is no clear-cut way of deciding what constitutes either maximal greatness or absolute perfection.
This point is valid not only for finding suitable arrangements in order to investigate an already clear-cut problem, but also for finding the problems themselves.
This was the lesson of the twentieth century; statesmen who believed in clear-cut power politics were stuck back in the nineteenth.
In the education category, male-female difference is clear-cut and does not change whichever level of education one chooses to compare.
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