clean-handed
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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
And you have come by them clean-handed, which is rare.—Moreover,
From In Her Own Right by Clarence F. Underwood
"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 Charles James Lever
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)
If he could make Gantry and his superiors come clean-handed to the election, there need be no exposure, no cataclysm involving both the railroad officials and his father.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde
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