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cleanhanded

cleanhanded is the alternative spelling of clean-handed.

Meaning of clean-handed

Adjective

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

  1. (UK) Innocent 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

Words formed from cleanhanded

Questions about cleanhanded

What is cleanhanded the alternative spelling of?
Cleanhanded is the alternative spelling of clean-handed.

Words near cleanhanded in the dictionary

  1. cleanest
  2. cleaneth
  3. cleanfill
  4. cleanfluencer
  5. cleanfluencers
  6. cleanhanded
  7. cleanhandedly
  8. cleanhandedness
  9. cleanin'
  10. cleaning
  11. cleaning agent

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