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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



... denounce another for the use of discreditable tactics, but it will have no hesitation in using such itself if it can thereby snatch a discreditable victory. So, clear speaking is needed: a fight that is not clean-handed will make victory more disgraceful than any defeat. I make the point here because we stand for separation from the British Empire, and because I have heard it argued that we ought, if we could, make a foreign alliance ...
— Principles of Freedom • Terence J. MacSwiney



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



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