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

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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

Then Gizur was very wrath, and said— "Thou art unlike thy father, though he was thought not to be quite clean-handed; yet was he ever helpful to men when they needed him most."

From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe

So, clear speaking is needed: a fight that is not clean-handed will make victory more disgraceful than any defeat.

From Principles of Freedom by MacSwiney, Terence J. (Terence Joseph)

Here again he had acquitted himself in the same clean-handed manner, never touching a dollar of the money intrusted to him, saving so far as officially authorized.

From Burl by Heady, Morrison

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