as in acquitted
free from guilt or blame
none of us is exactly cleanhanded in this affair
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Adjective
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As with all investigations leading to arrest, the subjects of the investigation are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
4 Oct. 2025 -
The new dating term 'Shrekking' sounds innocent.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In her view, Kimmel is blameless.—
Dan Doperalski,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2025
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And Jeremiah himself isn’t blameless.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And yet, Rodriguez has more experience in TV news than Blumenstein, who nonetheless has impeccable journalistic credentials garnered from a career at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
7 Oct. 2025
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The impeccable direction and cinematography, the masterful suspense, and the pitch-perfect performance of Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates all combine to create not just one of the best horror movies of all time, but one of the best films of all time, period.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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European supporters were not faultless.—
Kevin Coulson,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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The film’s docufiction-like honesty is the most conspicuous here: to imagine that the Mother Teresa whom the world knows mostly as a faultless octogenarian might have as a younger woman had similar intense moments of extreme conflicting emotions is humanizing, and lovely.—
Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Cleanhanded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleanhanded. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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