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
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
Then Gizur was very wrath, and said— "Thou art unlike thy father, though he was thought not to be quite clean-handed; yet was he ever helpful to men when they needed him most."
From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe
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
No one so utterly unlike the usual Roman, so lost amid the self-seekers of Rome, so unnecessarily clean-handed, could be found!
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
