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
And for a while I served my vision, honoring you with clean-handed deeds.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch
As a whole, however, American courts are clean-handed throughout, and the people know it.
From The American Judiciary by Baldwin, Simeon E., LLD
And you have come by them clean-handed, which is rare.—Moreover,
From In Her Own Right by Underwood, Clarence F.
Essentially clean-handed, the soul of him had begun to wither at the contact of that which he saw about him and was so large a part of.
From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by Raine, William MacLeod
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