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

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

May it wave there so long as it covers just laws, honest officials, and clean-handed administrators—so long and no longer!

From The Great Boer War by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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

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)