clean hands
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And one of the fundamental rules of equity, as Sotomayor explains, is that you have to seek it with clean hands.
From Slate • Jun. 24, 2025
Officials say it can be used only to clean hands if it’s completely unheated.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025
Speaking last week, Ms Boluarte insisted she entered government "with clean hands" and that she would "leave it with clean hands".
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2024
The rough hands of a slave, the clean hands of a prince, the wrinkled hands of an old man who has seen so much.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2023
Dad was a perpetual optimist, confident that brains someday would triumph over inanimate steel; bolstered in the belief that he entered the fray with clean hands and a pure heart.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
