clean-handed

• “Beneath a photo of Ayatollah Khamenei, a message praised the president as a “pious man, brave, clean-handed, principled [and] extremely active,” whose “firm decisions serve people [and] highlight the aims of the Revolution.””

  Simon & Schuster: Let the Swords Encircle Me

• “Ladies and Gentlemen, there is a grand cover-up in progress and the White House cannot afford to have any clean-handed Boy Scouts spill the beans”

  Think Progress » Wall Street Journal Editors: Public Schools In New Orleans Should Never Reopen

• “She can't boast of being a clean-handed person and the right one to lead.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “It will trigger an epidemic so virulent it will take out Pharos, Pella, Leynart, most of their household, and a sizable portion of the population of Kymil in the most innocent possible fashion, coincidentally leaving our clean-handed and horrified Cerdic with Regency over his imbecile uncle.”

  The Silicon Mage

• “There they turned back, also, leaving it to Morgan to carry out the rest of his program alone, it being the general opinion that he intended to herd the six beyond the cottonwoods on the farther shore and despatch them clean-handed, according to what was owing to him on their account.”

  Trail's End

• “This will go far, by its plain reminder, to prevent soiling the pages by the fingers, a practice which rapidly deteriorates fine books, and if long continued, renders them unfit to be exhibited to clean-handed readers.”

  A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries

• “Still less should it be needful to insist upon the importance to every reader of books, of coming to their perusal clean-handed.”

  A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries

• “Only so did she feel that she could go free of all obligation, clean-handed, without stultifying herself in her own eyes.”

  Big Timber A Story of the Northwest

• “Oh, if I could come to you clean-handed!" he interrupted, passionately; "if I could offer you a hand unstained by the blood of a fellow creature!”

  The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country

• “But, I'll give you this -- I'll give you your man clean-handed.”

  The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country

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