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
As a whole, however, American courts are clean-handed throughout, and the people know it.
From The American Judiciary by Baldwin, Simeon E., LLD
In some respects he is clever and remarkably clean-handed.
From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)
Only so did she feel that she could go free of all obligation, clean-handed, without stultifying herself in her own eyes.
From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
That isn't my idea; I'm going to win the election clean-handed; satisfaction in looking back on an honest piece of work; what?
From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George
