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- adjective Alternative spelling of
clean-handed .
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Examples
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Then Gizur was very wrath, and said, "Thou art unlike thy father, though he was thought not to be quite cleanhanded; yet was he ever helpful to men when they needed him most."
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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Pea'chum calls him "a mighty cleanhanded fellow," and adds:
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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