Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Innocent; guiltless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having clean hands.
- Figuratively, free from moral taint or suspicion; guiltless of wrong-doing: now used mostly of fidelity to pecuniary trusts: as, he came out of the transaction clean-handed.
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- adjective
innocent - adjective
candid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective free from evil or guilt
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Examples
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Beneath a photo of Ayatollah Khamenei, a message praised the president as a “pious man, brave, clean-handed, principled [and] extremely active,” whose “firm decisions serve people [and] highlight the aims of the Revolution.”
Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010
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Ladies and Gentlemen, there is a grand cover-up in progress and the White House cannot afford to have any clean-handed Boy Scouts spill the beans
Think Progress » Rule Changes Allow Police To Arrest War Protestors Near Crawford 2005
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Ladies and Gentlemen, there is a grand cover-up in progress and the White House cannot afford to have any clean-handed Boy Scouts spill the beans
Think Progress » Wall Street Journal Editors: Public Schools In New Orleans Should Never Reopen 2005
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Ladies and Gentlemen, there is a grand cover-up in progress and the White House cannot afford to have any clean-handed Boy Scouts spill the beans
Think Progress » Kristol: “The Administration Looks Weak Right Now” 2005
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"She can't boast of being a clean-handed person and the right one to lead."
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It will trigger an epidemic so virulent it will take out Pharos, Pella, Leynart, most of their household, and a sizable portion of the population of Kymil in the most innocent possible fashion, coincidentally leaving our clean-handed and horrified Cerdic with Regency over his imbecile uncle.
The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988
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This will go far, by its plain reminder, to prevent soiling the pages by the fingers, a practice which rapidly deteriorates fine books, and if long continued, renders them unfit to be exhibited to clean-handed readers.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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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.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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There they turned back, also, leaving it to Morgan to carry out the rest of his program alone, it being the general opinion that he intended to herd the six beyond the cottonwoods on the farther shore and despatch them clean-handed, according to what was owing to him on their account.
Trail's End George W. Ogden
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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.
Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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