clean-handed

[ kleen-han-did ]

adjective

1. free from wrongdoing; guiltless.

Other Words From

• cleanhanded·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of clean-handed¹

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

He saw the need of keeping cool headed and clean handed, with an eye always to the main issue.

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Only so did she feel that she could go free of all obligation, clean-handed, without stultifying herself in her own eyes.

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They were both learned in the Law, and were described by him, now as pure and clean-handed, and again as open to bribery.

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No one so utterly unlike the usual Roman, so lost amid the self-seekers of Rome, so unnecessarily clean-handed, could be found!

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

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