We introduce and investigate D-clean and D-nil-clean rings as well as some other closely related symmetric versions of cleanness and nil-cleanness. A comprehensive structural characterization is given for these symmetrically clean and symmetrically nil-clean rings in terms of Jacobson radical and its quotient. It is proved that strongly clean (resp., strongly nil-clean) rings are always D-clean (resp., D-nil-clean).Our results corroborate our recent findings published in Bull. Irkutsk State Univ., Math. (2019) and Turk. J. Math. (2019).
