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
May it wave there so long as it covers just laws, honest officials, and clean-handed administrators—so long and no longer!
From The Great Boer War by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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 Hodgkin, Thomas
These good chiefs in their higher grade dealings preserve the same clean-handed conduct.
From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
But, I'll give you this—I'll give you your man clean-handed.
From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
