clean-handed
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"I may be sorry that he is not more clean-handed; but I tell you again, Tom, they never indulged such punctilios in our young days, and I 'm too old to go to school again!"
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These good chiefs in their higher grade dealings preserve the same clean-handed conduct.
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The cowardly, contemptible cad, who would have his desire at the cost of all that was decent and clean-handed!
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Thrusting a clean-handed outsider to the presidency seems like a quaint notion given the utter lock insiders have had on FIFA's operation over the years.
From Time
A healthy crew you are!" he remarked contemptuously; "a nice, clean-handed lot, without grit enough to steal a horse, but plenty of it for robbing a dead boy.
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