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
The accusations have been made by men clean-handed themselves; but to them it has appeared unreasonable to believe that a Roman oligarch of those days should be an honest gentleman.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
These good chiefs in their higher grade dealings preserve the same clean-handed conduct.
From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
In some respects he is clever and remarkably clean-handed.
From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)
Hume was an ardent, honest, clean-handed politician without money, but he had for manager one Ethan Knowles, a cool-headed, tireless veteran of campaign battles, with David acting as assistant and speech maker.
From David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West by Maniates, Belle Kanaris
