clean-handed
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of clean-handed
First recorded in 1720–30
Example Sentences
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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
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
May it wave there so long as it covers just laws, honest officials, and clean-handed administrators—so long and no longer!
From The Great Boer War by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
But it brought me up short, to think that my own husband would try to play cuttle-fish with a clean-hearted and a clean-handed man like Peter.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
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
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