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
And for a while I served my vision, honoring you with clean-handed deeds.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch
I'm asking your aid because you're new and clean-handed.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
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
No one so utterly unlike the usual Roman, so lost amid the self-seekers of Rome, so unnecessarily clean-handed, could be found!
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
