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

Essentially clean-handed, the soul of him had begun to wither at the contact of that which he saw about him and was so large a part of.

From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by Raine, William MacLeod

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

But, I'll give you this—I'll give you your man clean-handed.

From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)