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
No one so utterly unlike the usual Roman, so lost amid the self-seekers of Rome, so unnecessarily clean-handed, could be found!
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
The gentle-mannered fellow, clean-minded, clean-handed, of the breakfast or supper table was one man.
From The Pit by Frank Norris
I'm asking your aid because you're new and clean-handed.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn
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 Max Brand
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