clean hands

Example Sentences

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Officials say it can be used only to clean hands if it’s completely unheated.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025

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

Raffi Ivker, a Jewish student at George Washington University, said he believed neither side "has clean hands."

From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2023

He self-identifies as a “germaphobe” and, in his 1997 book Art of the Comeback, identified himself as “a clean hands freak.”

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2023

It would have been nice, at the very least, to have set off with clean hands and faces.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson