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Definition of Clean-handed
1. Adjective. Free from evil or guilt. "The principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"
Also: Exculpatory, Righteous
Similar to: Absolved, Clear, Cleared, Exculpated, Exonerated, Vindicated, Acquitted, Not Guilty, Blameless, Inculpable, Irreproachable, Unimpeachable
Derivative terms: Guiltlessness, Innocence
Antonyms: Guilty
Definition of Clean-handed
1. Adjective. innocent ¹
2. Adjective. candid ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clean-handed
Literary usage of Clean-handed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Speeches of the Right Honourable Lord Randolph Churchill, M. P., 1880-1888 by Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill (1889)
"Was he clean-handed when he afterwards humbly apologised to the Austrian Government'{
Was he ... Was he clean-handed in his dealings with General Gordon ? ..."
2. Medora Leigh: A History and an Autobiography by Charles Mackay, Elizabeth Medora Leigh (1869)
"The witnesses are, none of them, clean-handed or clean-minded, ... Even Lady
Byron herself, though perfectly clean-handed, is not at all clear-minded; ..."
3. Proceedings of the Third Oecumenical Methodist Conference Held in City Road by Ecumenical Methodist Conference (1901)
"The Church is not yet clean-handed. There is yet too great complicity with this
mischievous and ... Then, clean-handed, we shall be ready for the battle. ..."
4. Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope by Hester Lucy Stanhope, Charles Lewis Meryon (1846)
"Speaking of this, she one day said, " What offers have not been made me ! which,
had I chosen not to be clean-handed, would have put pretty sums into my ..."
5. Readings in Vocational Guidance by Meyer Bloomfield (1915)
"... nonmanual or clean-handed occupations, while 76 per cent of the sons of
unskilled laborers wish to be artisans or to follow the nonmanual occupations. ..."
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