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

But, I'll give you this—I'll give you your man clean-handed.

From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

"I may be sorry that he is not more clean-handed; but I tell you again, Tom, they never indulged such punctilios in our young days, and I 'm too old to go to school again!"

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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 for a while I served my vision, honoring you with clean-handed deeds.

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch