clean hands
Example Sentences
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Officials say it can be used only to clean hands if it’s completely unheated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
The rough hands of a slave, the clean hands of a prince, the wrinkled hands of an old man who has seen so much.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023
Raffi Ivker, a Jewish student at George Washington University, said he believed neither side "has clean hands."
From Reuters ● Oct. 18, 2023
He self-identifies as a “germaphobe” and, in his 1997 book Art of the Comeback, identified himself as “a clean hands freak.”
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2023
A man will have clean hands once we get the lid slammed shut on that stinking century.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
