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
He goes into it clean-handed enough and he only half likes it.
From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph
The clean-handed, light-hearted disregard of self that had been his habit of mind always came flooding back like sunshine as he felt his decision made.
From The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman
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
And you have come by them clean-handed, which is rare.—Moreover,
From In Her Own Right by Underwood, Clarence F.
