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
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 Raine, William MacLeod
No one so utterly unlike the usual Roman, so lost amid the self-seekers of Rome, so unnecessarily clean-handed, could be found!
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
I want to learn that he is as clean-handed in this affair with the Sewells as he thinks himself.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Lever, Charles James
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
