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

If he could make Gantry and his superiors come clean-handed to the election, there need be no exposure, no cataclysm involving both the railroad officials and his father.

From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Lynde, Francis

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

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

I, at any rate, was clean-handed in the matter; I hadn't any axe to grind.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph