clean-handed

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clean-handed

adjective more clean-handed · most clean-handed · cleanhanded

  1. UK Innocent and candid; free from corruption. And how there was clearly no escape, no escape compatible with that clean-handed truth from which it was not possible for him to swerve.

    Similar: clean as a hound's tooth, clean as a whistle, pure, blameless, clean, clean-handed, clear, dovelike, guiltless, innocent, innocent as the babe unborn, innocent as the child unborn

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@misc{clean_handed_2026,
  title = {clean-handed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/clean-handed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}