clean-handed

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Hume was an ardent, honest, clean-handed politician without money, but he had for manager one Ethan Knowles, a cool-headed, tireless veteran of campaign battles, with David acting as assistant and speech maker.

From David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West by Maniates, Belle Kanaris

"I may be sorry that he is not more clean-handed; but I tell you again, Tom, they never indulged such punctilios in our young days, and I 'm too old to go to school again!"

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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

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

I, at any rate, was clean-handed in the matter; I hadn't any axe to grind.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph