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clean-handed
clean-handed
See also: cleanhanded
English
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Adjective
clean-handed (comparative more clean-handed, superlative most clean-handed)
- (chiefly Britain) Innocent and candid; free from corruption.
- 2014, Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister, ISBN 1609779894:
- 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.
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Translations
candid