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

"I may be sorry that he is not more clean-handed; but I tell you again, Tom, they never indulged such punctilios in our young days, and I 'm too old to go to school again!"

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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 Rives, Hallie Erminie

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 Heady, Morrison

In some respects he is clever and remarkably clean-handed.

From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)