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 gentle-mannered fellow, clean-minded, clean-handed, of the breakfast or supper table was one man.

From The Pit by Norris, Frank

Only so did she feel that she could go free of all obligation, clean-handed, without stultifying herself in her own eyes.

From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

You have had in me, as you were wont to say, a most clean-handed Judge: I shall leave behind in you my most uncorrupted witnesses.'

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas

Here again he had acquitted himself in the same clean-handed manner, never touching a dollar of the money intrusted to him, saving so far as officially authorized.

From Burl by Heady, Morrison