clean-handed
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
I'm asking your aid because you're new and clean-handed.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
No one so utterly unlike the usual Roman, so lost amid the self-seekers of Rome, so unnecessarily clean-handed, could be found!
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
I want to learn that he is as clean-handed in this affair with the Sewells as he thinks himself.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Lever, Charles James
And in this way he had learned to distrust men without bitterness; looking on life mainly as a game of skill, but not dead to traditions of heroism and clean-handed honour.
From Romola by Eliot, George
