clean-handed

Examples

• All

• The charity organization prides itself on maintaining clean-handed practices in all its fundraising efforts.

• So the UN has not kept clean hands by any means.

• And when the time comes, I want to face it with open with, you know, clean hands and an open heart.

• Despite the accusations, he was confident that his clean-handed reputation would protect him from any wrongdoing.

Synonyms

I

innocent

vsclean-handed

∞ 2.2

Not guilty of a crime or wrongdoing

highlights moral purity and freedom from corruption rather than mere lack of guilt

C

clean

vsclean-handed

418 1.0

Without problems or faults

applies to moral freedom from guilt and corruption not general spotless state

B

blameless

vsclean-handed

18 3.6

Not guilty of any wrong

is about freedom from guilt or moral corruption rather than mere absence of blame

G

guiltless

vsclean-handed

5 4.6

Not responsible for doing anything wrong

is about being free from guilt or moral corruption not only responsibility

U

uncorrupted

vsclean-handed

2 5.6

Not made dishonest by money or power

focuses on freedom from wrongdoing and broader moral integrity

U

unsordid

vsclean-handed

1 9.9

Honest and pure in actions and motives

stresses being free from moral corruption rather than just clean behavior

U

uncorrupt

vsclean-handed

1 5.3

Honest and unwilling to take bribes

emphasizes absence of moral corruption rather than only innocence from crimes

Antonyms

G

guilty

∞ 2.3

Responsible for doing something wrong and open to blame or punishment

C

corrupt

291 4.4

Willing to act dishonestly to gain money or power

How Innocent

irreproachable

• Formal

1 8.1

blameless

18 3.6

clean-handed

6.9

innocent

134 1.0

not guilty

• Formal

264 3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology