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
That isn't my idea; I'm going to win the election clean-handed; satisfaction in looking back on an honest piece of work; what?
From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George
No one so utterly unlike the usual Roman, so lost amid the self-seekers of Rome, so unnecessarily clean-handed, could be found!
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
