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)

The gentle-mannered fellow, clean-minded, clean-handed, of the breakfast or supper table was one man.

From The Pit by Norris, Frank

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

And for a while I served my vision, honoring you with clean-handed deeds.

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch