clean-handed
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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
As a whole, however, American courts are clean-handed throughout, and the people know it.
From The American Judiciary by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD
Essentially clean-handed, the soul of him had begun to wither at the contact of that which he saw about him and was so large a part of.
From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine
He goes into it clean-handed enough and he only half likes it.
From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad
In our house we had no secrets: the young folk, being trusted, were ever trustworthy; and the parents, clean-handed and pure-hearted, had nothing that they were afraid to tell their children.
From John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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