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

The gentle-mannered fellow, clean-minded, clean-handed, of the breakfast or supper table was one man.

From The Pit by Norris, Frank

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

From In Her Own Right by Underwood, Clarence F.

Why, I've gone all my life thanking God that I come of a race of gentlemen, clean-handed, and praying God to make me worthy of it.

From Black Jack by Brand, Max

The cowardly, contemptible cad, who would have his desire at the cost of all that was decent and clean-handed!

From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie