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 gentle-mannered fellow, clean-minded, clean-handed, of the breakfast or supper table was one man.
From The Pit by Norris, Frank
In our house we had no secrets: the young folk, being trusted, were ever trustworthy; and the parents, clean-handed and pure-hearted, had nothing that they were afraid to tell their children.
From John Halifax, Gentleman by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
You have had in me, as you were wont to say, a most clean-handed Judge: I shall leave behind in you my most uncorrupted witnesses.'
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas
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)
