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
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)
Slotkin exclaimed, in the hearty tones of a conscientious man, glad that for once the performance of his official duty redounded to clean-handed personal profit.
From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Glass, Montague
The accusations have been made by men clean-handed themselves; but to them it has appeared unreasonable to believe that a Roman oligarch of those days should be an honest gentleman.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
I'm asking your aid because you're new and clean-handed.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
