clean-handed
(chiefly, UK) Innocent and candid; free from corruption.
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(chiefly, UK) Innocent and candid; free from corruption.
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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- clean-handedness92%
(chiefly, UK) The quality of being clean-handed; honesty and freedom from wrong-doing.
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Someone with no prior criminal record, a person with no previous convictions; loosely, someone who has not done anything wrong before, an unblemished character.
- clean64%
of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.
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of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
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(Internet slang, 4chan) Usually of a man: having never held hands with a member of the opposite sex.