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
These good chiefs in their higher grade dealings preserve the same clean-handed conduct.
From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
And you have come by them clean-handed, which is rare.—Moreover,
From In Her Own Right by Underwood, Clarence F.
So, clear speaking is needed: a fight that is not clean-handed will make victory more disgraceful than any defeat.
From Principles of Freedom by MacSwiney, Terence J. (Terence Joseph)
No one so utterly unlike the usual Roman, so lost amid the self-seekers of Rome, so unnecessarily clean-handed, could be found!
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
