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
Then Gizur was very wrath, and said— "Thou art unlike thy father, though he was thought not to be quite clean-handed; yet was he ever helpful to men when they needed him most."
From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by George Webbe Dasent
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)
In our house we had no secrets: the young folk, being trusted, were ever trustworthy; and the parents, clean-handed and pure-hearted, had nothing that they were afraid to tell their children.
From John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The accusations have been made by men clean-handed themselves; but to them it has appeared unreasonable to believe that a Roman oligarch of those days should be an honest gentleman.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
