Meanings
adjective
- alternativeAlternative spelling of clean-handed.
Further, he was singularly cleanhanded, as Ottoman officials go. Even those who declared that he took bribes in his youth admitted that he refused them in his old age —“unless they were very big,” they added.
1922, Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram, The Cradle of Mankind: Life in Eastern Kurdistan, →ISBN
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