clean-handedly

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

clean-handed +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

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

  1. In a clean-handed manner; honestly and forthrightly.
    • 2013, Eyal Lewin, Ethos Clash in Israeli Society, →ISBN, page 130:
      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.