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

And in this way he had learned to distrust men without bitterness; looking on life mainly as a game of skill, but not dead to traditions of heroism and clean-handed honour.

From Romola by Eliot, George

I want to learn that he is as clean-handed in this affair with the Sewells as he thinks himself.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Lever, Charles James

Still less should it be needful to insist upon the importance to every reader of books, of coming to their perusal clean-handed.

From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand

Then Gizur was very wrath, and said— "Thou art unlike thy father, though he was thought not to be quite clean-handed; yet was he ever helpful to men when they needed him most."

From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe