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 a priest has really made his escape from the prison, you are not clean-handed enough to meet the accusation; see to it then, Boivin, that I may be free at once.'
From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Lever, Charles James
Why, I've gone all my life thanking God that I come of a race of gentlemen, clean-handed, and praying God to make me worthy of it.
From Black Jack by Brand, Max
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 Trollope, Anthony
May it wave there so long as it covers just laws, honest officials, and clean-handed administrators—so long and no longer!
From The Great Boer War by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
