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clean-handed

[ kleen-han-did ]

/ ˈklinˈhæn dɪd /

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adjective

free from wrongdoing; guiltless.

Origin of clean-handed

First recorded in 1720–30

OTHER WORDS FROM clean-handed

clean·hand·ed·ness, noun

Words nearby clean-handed

clean sweep, clean technology, clean up, clean wool, clean-cut, clean-handed, clean-limbed, clean-living, clean-shaven, clean-tech, cleanability

Example sentences from the Web for clean-handed

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

Principles of Freedom |Terence J. MacSwiney
They were both learned in the Law, and were described by him, now as pure and clean-handed, and again as open to bribery.

History of the Jews, Vol. II (of 6) |Heinrich Graetz
May it wave there so long as it covers just laws, honest officials, and clean-handed administrators—so long and no longer!

The Great Boer War |Arthur Conan Doyle
Only so did she feel that she could go free of all obligation, clean-handed, without stultifying herself in her own eyes.

Big Timber |Bertrand W. Sinclair

To shame him before the world, whose ancestors had been upright and clean-handed?

Satan Sanderson |Hallie Erminie Rives