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

I want to learn that he is as clean-handed in this affair with the Sewells as he thinks himself.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Lever, Charles James

In some respects he is clever and remarkably clean-handed.

From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)

That isn't my idea; I'm going to win the election clean-handed; satisfaction in looking back on an honest piece of work; what?

From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George

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

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph