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

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 Lynde, Francis

Here again he had acquitted himself in the same clean-handed manner, never touching a dollar of the money intrusted to him, saving so far as officially authorized.

From Burl by Heady, Morrison

I, at any rate, was clean-handed in the matter; I hadn't any axe to grind.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph

I'm asking your aid because you're new and clean-handed.

From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)