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Clean-handed   /klin-hˈændəd/   Listen
Clean-handed

adjective
1.
Free from evil or guilt.  Synonyms: guiltless, innocent.  "The principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"






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"Clean-handed" Quotes from Famous Books



... responsibility of her work, but chiefly because at that hour she expected the appearance of her father. Her eyes were often on the door. It opened to admit the young men, the riders and ranchers who hung up their hats, swaggered with a little jingle of spurs to their chairs; clean-faced, clean-handed, wet-haired, murmuring low-voiced courtesies,—"Pass me the gravy, please," "I wouldn't be carin' fer any, thank you,"—and lifting to the faces of waiting girls now and again their strange, young, brooding eyes, ...
— The Branding Iron • Katharine Newlin Burt



Words linked to "Clean-handed" :   righteous, clear, unimpeachable, acquitted, exculpatory, cleared, exculpated, innocent, absolved, not guilty, guiltless, irreproachable, blameless, inculpable, vindicated, exonerated, guilty



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