clean-handed
Americanadjective
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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
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.
I'm asking your aid because you're new and clean-handed.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
But it brought me up short, to think that my own husband would try to play cuttle-fish with a clean-hearted and a clean-handed man like Peter.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
In some respects he is clever and remarkably clean-handed.
From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)
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