Both Uses
antiseptic
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I Am the Cheese
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- He sometimes wondered what had happened to transform his mother from the laughing, tender woman to whom the scent of lilac clung into the pale and subdued and antiseptic woman who seldom left the house, who lurked behind window curtains.†
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- It looks more romantic than those antiseptic motels.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(antiseptic) a substance that prevents infection by killing harmful micro-organisms; or (as an adjective) describing something very clean and free of germs
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, "antiseptic" is used to indicate something that is too planned -- lacking in organic or natural character.