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
In some respects he is clever and remarkably clean-handed.
From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
You have had in me, as you were wont to say, a most clean-handed Judge: I shall leave behind in you my most uncorrupted witnesses.'
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin
Why, I've gone all my life thanking God that I come of a race of gentlemen, clean-handed, and praying God to make me worthy of it.
From Black Jack by Max Brand
May it wave there so long as it covers just laws, honest officials, and clean-handed administrators—so long and no longer!
From The Great Boer War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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