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
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 Morrison Heady
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 Francis Lynde
So, clear speaking is needed: a fight that is not clean-handed will make victory more disgraceful than any defeat.
From Principles of Freedom by Terence J. (Terence Joseph) MacSwiney
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 Hallie Erminie Rives
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