clean-handed

American  

[kleen-han-did] / ˈklinˈhæn dɪd /

adjective

1. free from wrongdoing; guiltless.

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Other Word Forms

• cleanhandedness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of clean-handed

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

clean-handed

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

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 Glass, Montague

Why, I've gone all my life thanking God that I come of a race of gentlemen, clean-handed, and praying God to make me worthy of it.

From Black Jack by Brand, Max

The gentle-mannered fellow, clean-minded, clean-handed, of the breakfast or supper table was one man.

From The Pit by Norris, Frank

He removed the royal officials having charge of the supplies for the Philippines, putting clean-handed men in their places; and in consequence the amount of supplies sent to that colony was greater than ever before....

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Blair, Emma Helen