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
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The clean-handed, light-hearted disregard of self that had been his habit of mind always came flooding back like sunshine as he felt his decision made.
From The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman
And you have come by them clean-handed, which is rare.—Moreover,
From In Her Own Right by Underwood, Clarence F.
So, clear speaking is needed: a fight that is not clean-handed will make victory more disgraceful than any defeat.
From Principles of Freedom by MacSwiney, Terence J. (Terence Joseph)
And for a while I served my vision, honoring you with clean-handed deeds.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch