clean-handedly

adverb

In a clean-handed manner; honestly and forthrightly.

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Meanings

adverbclean-handedly (comparative more clean-handedly, superlative most clean-handedly)

comparative more clean-handedly · superlative most clean-handedly · alternative cleanhandedly

  1. In a clean-handed manner; honestly and forthrightly.

    The notion that the Sabra fights clean-handedly a morally justified war and that Jewish combatants are ever better than any of their opponents, emerges with striking clarity from the chronicles of the 1948 Convoy of the Thirty-five event.

    2013, Eyal Lewin, Ethos Clash in Israeli Society, →ISBN, page 130

Origin

From clean-handed + -ly.

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APA

clean-handedly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clean-handedly

MLA

“clean-handedly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clean-handedly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clean-handedly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clean-handedly.

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