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

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)

And for a while I served my vision, honoring you with clean-handed deeds.

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch

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

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph

These good chiefs in their higher grade dealings preserve the same clean-handed conduct.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta