clean-handed
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- cleanhandedness noun
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
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
And for a while I served my vision, honoring you with clean-handed deeds.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch
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
Only so did she feel that she could go free of all obligation, clean-handed, without stultifying herself in her own eyes.
From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
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