clean-handed
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- cleanhandedness noun
Etymology
Origin of clean-handed
First recorded in 1720–30
Example Sentences
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"I may be sorry that he is not more clean-handed; but I tell you again, Tom, they never indulged such punctilios in our young days, and I 'm too old to go to school again!"
From Project Gutenberg
These good chiefs in their higher grade dealings preserve the same clean-handed conduct.
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The cowardly, contemptible cad, who would have his desire at the cost of all that was decent and clean-handed!
From Project Gutenberg
Thrusting a clean-handed outsider to the presidency seems like a quaint notion given the utter lock insiders have had on FIFA's operation over the years.
From Time
I want to learn that he is as clean-handed in this affair with the Sewells as he thinks himself.
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