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
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 Anthony Trollope
As a whole, however, American courts are clean-handed throughout, and the people know it.
From The American Judiciary by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD
And in this way he had learned to distrust men without bitterness; looking on life mainly as a game of skill, but not dead to traditions of heroism and clean-handed honour.
From Romola by George Eliot
And for a while I served my vision, honoring you with clean-handed deeds.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
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