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clean-handedly

clean-handedly adverb: in a clean-handed manner; honestly and forthrightly.

Adverb

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

  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

Forms of clean-handedly

comparativemore clean-handedly
superlativemost clean-handedly
alternative formcleanhandedly

Origin of clean-handedly

From clean-handed + -ly.

Questions about clean-handedly

What does clean-handedly mean?
Clean-handedly means in a clean-handed manner; honestly and forthrightly.
What part of speech is clean-handedly?
Clean-handedly is an adverb.

Words near clean-handedly in the dictionary

  1. clean up one's plate
  2. clean URL
  3. clean URLs
  4. clean-cut
  5. clean-handed
  6. clean-handedly
  7. clean-handedness
  8. clean-label
  9. clean-limbed
  10. clean-living
  11. clean-room

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