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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