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
If he could make Gantry and his superiors come clean-handed to the election, there need be no exposure, no cataclysm involving both the railroad officials and his father.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde
I'm asking your aid because you're new and clean-handed.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn
Slotkin exclaimed, in the hearty tones of a conscientious man, glad that for once the performance of his official duty redounded to clean-handed personal profit.
From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Montague Glass
The clean-handed, light-hearted disregard of self that had been his habit of mind always came flooding back like sunshine as he felt his decision made.
From The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
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