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

I'm asking your aid because you're new and clean-handed.

From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)

If a priest has really made his escape from the prison, you are not clean-handed enough to meet the accusation; see to it then, Boivin, that I may be free at once.'

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Lever, Charles James

And you have come by them clean-handed, which is rare.—Moreover,

From In Her Own Right by Underwood, Clarence F.

Hume was an ardent, honest, clean-handed politician without money, but he had for manager one Ethan Knowles, a cool-headed, tireless veteran of campaign battles, with David acting as assistant and speech maker.

From David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West by Maniates, Belle Kanaris