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

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

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

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)

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