English > clean-handed: 1 sense > adjective 1Meaning | Free from evil or guilt. |
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Synonyms | innocent, guiltless |
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Narrower | absolved, clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated | Freed from any question of guilt |
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acquitted, not guilty | declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime |
blameless, inculpable, irreproachable, unimpeachable | Free of guilt |
See also | exculpatory | Clearing of guilt or blame |
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righteous | Characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice |
Opposite | guilty | Responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act |
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Spanish | inocente |
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Catalan | innocent |
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