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

Only so did she feel that she could go free of all obligation, clean-handed, without stultifying herself in her own eyes.

From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

That isn't my idea; I'm going to win the election clean-handed; satisfaction in looking back on an honest piece of work; what?

From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George

So, clear speaking is needed: a fight that is not clean-handed will make victory more disgraceful than any defeat.

From Principles of Freedom by MacSwiney, Terence J. (Terence Joseph)

Slotkin exclaimed, in the hearty tones of a conscientious man, glad that for once the performance of his official duty redounded to clean-handed personal profit.

From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Glass, Montague