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

The clean-handed, light-hearted disregard of self that had been his habit of mind always came flooding back like sunshine as he felt his decision made.

From The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman

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

From The Pit by Norris, Frank

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)

But it brought me up short, to think that my own husband would try to play cuttle-fish with a clean-hearted and a clean-handed man like Peter.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)