0 the condition or quality of having everything ordered and arranged in the right place: --
My father was always very particular about cleanliness and tidiness.
Students are expected to assist in maintaining the cleanliness and tidiness of classrooms.
In effect, he said that the procedure that we are proposing and recommending offends against the canons of administrative tidiness.
It is a tenet that is true, and often misunderstood, that tidiness in the countryside is almost always a vice and not a virtue.
There is every possibility that damage could be done by over-hasty decisions merely in the interests of administrative tidiness.
They said that they still did not want it for the sake of neatness and tidiness, and asked us to believe that.
I wonder whether rigid insistence on what is, in effect, tidiness of the filing system is a good and sufficient reason for rejecting it.
For the sake of tidiness, it is best to avoid fractional coins in a decimal system.
I should not like to see it like that, because that sort of tidiness is only for cemeteries.
But at the same time do not let us be foisted off with suggestions based on the need for tidiness.
