clean-handed
Example Sentences
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Snapped Quarles about the clean-handed beat of Baldwin and Sullivan: "I would say it was not playing the game with the Defense Department the way I would like it played."
From Time Magazine Archive
In some respects he is clever and remarkably clean-handed.
From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
Here again he had acquitted himself in the same clean-handed manner, never touching a dollar of the money intrusted to him, saving so far as officially authorized.
From Burl by Morrison Heady
You have had in me, as you were wont to say, a most clean-handed Judge: I shall leave behind in you my most uncorrupted witnesses.'
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin
And you have come by them clean-handed, which is rare.—Moreover,
From In Her Own Right by Clarence F. Underwood
