clean-handed

adjective

Innocent and candid; free from corruption.

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clean as a hound's toothclean as a whistlepureblamelesscleancleardovelikeguiltless
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Meanings

adjectiveclean-handed (comparative more clean-handed, superlative most clean-handed)

comparative more clean-handed · superlative most clean-handed · alternative cleanhanded

  1. UKInnocent 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.

    2014, Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister, →ISBN

    Synonyms: clean as a hound's tooth, clean as a whistle, pure, blameless, clean, clean as a hound's tooth, clean as a whistle, clear

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveInnocent and candid; free from corruption.

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clean as a hound's toothclean as a whistlepureblamelesscleanclean as a hound's toothclean as a whistlecleardovelikeguiltlessinnocentinnocent as the babe unborninnocent as the child unbornirreprehensiblenonblameworthynot guiltyoffenselesspurerighteous

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivefree from evil or guilt

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innocentguiltlessabsolvedclearclearedacquittednot guiltyblamelessinculpableirreproachable
Also see
absolvedacquittedblamelessclean as a hound's toothclean as a whistlecleardovelikeexoneratedguiltlessinculpableinnocentinnocent as the babe unborninnocent as the child unbornirreprehensibleirreproachablenonblameworthynot guiltyoffenselesspurerighteoussacklesssinlessunblameableunblameworthyuncalculatingunguiltyunimpeachablevindicated

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Bulgarian честен
  • честен (česten)candid
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APA

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MLA

“clean-handed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clean-handed. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clean-handed,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clean-handed.

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