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cleanhandedly

cleanhandedly is the alternative form of clean-handedly.

Meaning of clean-handedly

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 cleanhandedly

comparativemore cleanhandedly
superlativemost cleanhandedly

Origin of cleanhandedly

From cleanhanded + -ly.

Questions about cleanhandedly

What is cleanhandedly the alternative form of?
Cleanhandedly is the alternative form of clean-handedly.

Words near cleanhandedly in the dictionary

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

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