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

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

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch

I'm asking your aid because you're new and clean-handed.

From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)

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)

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