clean-handed

American  

[kleen-han-did] / ˈklinˈhæn dɪd /

adjective

1. free from wrongdoing; guiltless.

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Other Word Forms

• cleanhandedness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of clean-handed

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

clean-handed

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

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

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

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

Here again he had acquitted himself in the same clean-handed manner, never touching a dollar of the money intrusted to him, saving so far as officially authorized.

From Burl by Heady, Morrison