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
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 William MacLeod Raine
These good chiefs in their higher grade dealings preserve the same clean-handed conduct.
From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Then Gizur was very wrath, and said— "Thou art unlike thy father, though he was thought not to be quite clean-handed; yet was he ever helpful to men when they needed him most."
From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by George Webbe Dasent
The clean-handed, light-hearted disregard of self that had been his habit of mind always came flooding back like sunshine as he felt his decision made.
From The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
