aboveboard

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She also said there was “a lot of ethics back and forth — of lawyers and all of that, to make sure that we were aboveboard and that everything is kosher.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

I just want to make sure everything is aboveboard and done properly.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026

He and his colleagues have instead designed an aboveboard playbook for reducing tariffs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

"China never interferes in other countries' internal affairs and always acts in an open and aboveboard manner," the Chinese embassy in London has previously said.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025

The only problem being, of course, that whenever you ran an operation that was not aboveboard there was a certain risk of it backfiring into a worse situation than it had been before.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols