clean-handed

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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

Essentially clean-handed, the soul of him had begun to wither at the contact of that which he saw about him and was so large a part of.

From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by Raine, William MacLeod

The accusations have been made by men clean-handed themselves; but to them it has appeared unreasonable to believe that a Roman oligarch of those days should be an honest gentleman.

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony

He goes into it clean-handed enough and he only half likes it.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph

Here again he had acquitted himself in the same clean-handed manner, never touching a dollar of the money intrusted to him, saving so far as officially authorized.

From Burl by Heady, Morrison