Antonyms for clean hands


Grammar : Noun


Definition of clean hands

  • As in innocence : noun blamelessness
  • As in clean slate : noun new start
Example sentences :
  • He could go to Elizabeth now with clean hands and youth and hope.
  • Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • A suspicion of it, I think, and so brave a man should have clean hands.
  • Extract from : « The Suitors of Yvonne » by Raphael Sabatini
  • When we began this fight, we had clean hands—are they clean' now?
  • Extract from : « The Skin Game (Fourth Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
  • Clean hands and a pure heart, and burning ardour in the eyes.
  • Extract from : « Despair's Last Journey » by David Christie Murray
  • Touched only with clean hands, and by testators willed to their heirs.
  • Extract from : « Man of Uz, and Other Poems » by Lydia Howard Sigourney
  • I cannot say that in the matter of treaty keeping we had clean hands.
  • Extract from : « Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 » by James Kennedy
  • Respect for age is de rigueur at all times, like clean hands.
  • Extract from : « A House-Boat on the Styx » by John Kendrick Bangs
  • If we were to escape, we must escape with clean hands and clear consciences.
  • Extract from : « Saved from the Sea » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • Women are mostly proud, and like their menkind to have clean hands; and I'll say it, too!'
  • Extract from : « Lover or Friend » by Rosa Nouchette Carey
  • I thank my good genius that I returned, as I entered, with clean hands!
  • Extract from : « Bibliomania; or Book-Madness » by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Synonyms for clean hands

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