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
In some respects he is clever and remarkably clean-handed.
From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
In our house we had no secrets: the young folk, being trusted, were ever trustworthy; and the parents, clean-handed and pure-hearted, had nothing that they were afraid to tell their children.
From John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
I, at any rate, was clean-handed in the matter; I hadn't any axe to grind.
From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad
Hume was an ardent, honest, clean-handed politician without money, but he had for manager one Ethan Knowles, a cool-headed, tireless veteran of campaign battles, with David acting as assistant and speech maker.
From David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West by Belle Kanaris Maniates
