clean-handed
Example Sentences
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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
The clean-handed, light-hearted disregard of self that had been his habit of mind always came flooding back like sunshine as he felt his decision made.
From The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman
And you have come by them clean-handed, which is rare.—Moreover,
From In Her Own Right by Underwood, Clarence F.
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
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)
