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

And you have come by them clean-handed, which is rare.—Moreover,

From In Her Own Right by Underwood, Clarence F.

Essentially clean-handed, the soul of him had begun to wither at the contact of that which he saw about him and was so large a part of.

From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by Raine, William MacLeod

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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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