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
Only so did she feel that she could go free of all obligation, clean-handed, without stultifying herself in her own eyes.
From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
Still less should it be needful to insist upon the importance to every reader of books, of coming to their perusal clean-handed.
From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand
You are her affectionate father, an honorable, clean-handed man.
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
He removed the royal officials having charge of the supplies for the Philippines, putting clean-handed men in their places; and in consequence the amount of supplies sent to that colony was greater than ever before....
