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
As a whole, however, American courts are clean-handed throughout, and the people know it.
From The American Judiciary by Baldwin, Simeon E., LLD
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
And for a while I served my vision, honoring you with clean-handed deeds.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch
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
