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Definition of Cleanhanded
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleanhanded
Literary usage of Cleanhanded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Revolution by George Otto Trevelyan (1905)
"That was how cleanhanded senators viewed the disgraceful proceedings; but harder
things still were said in bank-parlours. The spectacle of fine gentlemen, ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"But they were all hard-working and public-spirited men, and cleanhanded in money
matters, according to the standard of their time. THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES. ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"... cleanhanded; each was tenderly affectionate in his family, and unalterably
stanch in his friendships; each displayed a singular earnest ness and ..."
4. Some Contemporary Poets (1920) by Harold Monro, Thomas Sturge Moore (1920)
"... if not clay, are not pure gold ; for it is not true that pleasure leads and
peace attends, or that the shield of Jove defends the cleanhanded hero, ..."
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