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

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 Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

Then Gizur was very wrath, and said— "Thou art unlike thy father, though he was thought not to be quite clean-handed; yet was he ever helpful to men when they needed him most."

From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe

And you have come by them clean-handed, which is rare.—Moreover,

From In Her Own Right by Underwood, Clarence F.

These good chiefs in their higher grade dealings preserve the same clean-handed conduct.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta