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sauber (adj)
   clean, unpolluted; neat, tidy; faultless; upstanding, unsullied
sauber (adv)
   cleanly, neatly; faultlessly; nicely

Hier ist die Luft sehr sauber und die Landschaft grün.
Here the air is very clean and the landscape green.
„Saubere Winterspiele“ in Vancouver: Kritiker bezweifeln aber stark, dass die Spiele wirklich sauber sind.
"Clean Winter Games" in Vancouver: Critics, however, strongly doubt that the Games are really clean [drug-free].
Jackson Bentley: Was reizt Sie eigentlich persönlich an
der Wüste?
T.E. Lawrence: Sie ist sauber.
Jackson Bentley: What attracts you personally to the desert?
T.E. Lawrence: It’s clean.
  - Arthur Kennedy and Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia (1962, "Lawrence von Arabien")

Related:
sauber bleiben to keep one’s hands clean (stay out of trouble);
  stay drug-free
die Sauberfrau decent, upright woman; squeaky-clean woman (politician)
der Saubermann decent, upright fellow; "Mr. Clean," squeaky-clean guy (politician)
die Sauberkeit cleanliness, neatness, tidiness
sauber machen to clean
saubere Flüsse unpolluted rivers
sauber singen to sing on key

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