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What does clean-handed mean?

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Adjective
  1. (chiefly Britain) Innocent and candid; free from corruption.
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They were both learned in the Law, and were described by him, now as pure and clean-handed, and again as open to bribery.
Only so did she feel that she could go free of all obligation, clean-handed, without stultifying herself in her own eyes.
Well, between you and me, I wish he'd gotten away clean-handed.
I want to learn that he is as clean-handed in this affair with the Sewells as he thinks himself.
To shame him before the world, whose ancestors had been upright and clean-handed?
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.

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