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

In our house we had no secrets: the young folk, being trusted, were ever trustworthy; and the parents, clean-handed and pure-hearted, had nothing that they were afraid to tell their children.

From John Halifax, Gentleman by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

He goes into it clean-handed enough and he only half likes it.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph

These good chiefs in their higher grade dealings preserve the same clean-handed conduct.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta

As a whole, however, American courts are clean-handed throughout, and the people know it.

From The American Judiciary by Baldwin, Simeon E., LLD