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View synonyms for clean-handed
clean-handed
[ kleen-han-did ]
adjective
- free from wrongdoing; guiltless.
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Other Words From
- cleanhanded·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of clean-handed1
First recorded in 1720–30
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Example Sentences
He saw the need of keeping cool headed and clean handed, with an eye always to the main issue.
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Only so did she feel that she could go free of all obligation, clean-handed, without stultifying herself in her own eyes.
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They were both learned in the Law, and were described by him, now as pure and clean-handed, and again as open to bribery.
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No one so utterly unlike the usual Roman, so lost amid the self-seekers of Rome, so unnecessarily clean-handed, could be found!
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Still less should it be needful to insist upon the importance to every reader of books, of coming to their perusal clean-handed.
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