clean-handed

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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

As a whole, however, American courts are clean-handed throughout, and the people know it.

From The American Judiciary by Baldwin, Simeon E., LLD

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

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

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)