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
I'm asking your aid because you're new and clean-handed.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
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
Still less should it be needful to insist upon the importance to every reader of books, of coming to their perusal clean-handed.
From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand
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)
