Clean Hands Definition

noun

The quality of a person who acted in an equitable way (that is, fair, just, proper, reasonable, with good faith) in a dispute or transaction, for which he or she is now seeking relief or asserting a defense in an action in equity. See also unclean hands.

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Clean Hands Sentence Examples

  • They say, ` Come to us ye who are of clean hands and pure speech, ye who are unstained by crime, who have a good conscience towards God, who have done justly and lived uprightly.'

  • Similarly, the recalcitrant employer might seek to argue that the union does not come with clean hands.

  • Always begin with clean hands and a clean face.

  • Always handle your lenses carefully, with clean hands.

  • Touch your piercing with very clean hands only.

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