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 cowardly, contemptible cad, who would have his desire at the cost of all that was decent and clean-handed!
From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie
Still less should it be needful to insist upon the importance to every reader of books, of coming to their perusal clean-handed.
From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand
He goes into it clean-handed enough and he only half likes it.
From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph
"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
