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

If a priest has really made his escape from the prison, you are not clean-handed enough to meet the accusation; see to it then, Boivin, that I may be free at once.'

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Lever, Charles James

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 Eliot, George

Then Gizur was very wrath, and said— "Thou art unlike thy father, though he was thought not to be quite clean-handed; yet was he ever helpful to men when they needed him most."

From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe

But it brought me up short, to think that my own husband would try to play cuttle-fish with a clean-hearted and a clean-handed man like Peter.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)