clean-handed

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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

"I may be sorry that he is not more clean-handed; but I tell you again, Tom, they never indulged such punctilios in our young days, and I 'm too old to go to school again!"

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

If he could make Gantry and his superiors come clean-handed to the election, there need be no exposure, no cataclysm involving both the railroad officials and his father.

From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Lynde, Francis

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

Slotkin exclaimed, in the hearty tones of a conscientious man, glad that for once the performance of his official duty redounded to clean-handed personal profit.

From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Glass, Montague