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
And in this way he had learned to distrust men without bitterness; looking on life mainly as a game of skill, but not dead to traditions of heroism and clean-handed honour.
From Romola by Eliot, George
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
The cowardly, contemptible cad, who would have his desire at the cost of all that was decent and clean-handed!
From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie
