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Unsullied

adjective

Spotlessly clean and fresh.

(of reputation) free from blemishes. Synonyms: stainless, unstained, untainted, untarnished. "An untarnished reputation"

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... was gratitude that after all Fred had been able to come through the great test with his honor unsullied. He had shot the ball as straight as a die at Mullane; and the game was still anybody's so far as victory ...

— Jack Winters' Baseball Team - Or, The Rivals of the Diamond • Mark Overton

... have acted in such a manner that the French would neither have wished for invasion nor dared to attempt it: they would have increased the permanent strength of the country while they preserved its reputation unsullied. Nothing of this kind your friends have done, because they are solemnly pledged to do nothing of this kind; because, to tolerate all religions, and to equalise civil rights to all sects, is to oppose some of the worst passions of our nature—to plunder and to ...

— Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays • Sydney Smith

... projects, he was ever ready to extend his sympathy and assistance to those of others. His reputation as a scholar was enhanced by the higher qualities which he possessed as a man,—by his benevolence, his simplicity of manners, and unsullied moral worth. My own obligations to him are large; for from the publication of my first historical work, down to the last week of his life, I have constantly received proofs from him of his hearty and most efficient interest in the prosecution of my historical labors; and ...

— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott

... without thought I stole on conies at play and stooped at one; I hunted it, I caught it up to me As I outsprang it, and with this thin knife Pierced it from eye to eye; and it was dead, Untorn, unsullied, and with flawless fur. Then my untroubled mind came back ...

— Georgian Poetry 1913-15 • Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)

... voice of a young apprentice, a mere child, as he seemed, with fair hair and blue eyes filled with the native candour of unsullied youth,—"is ...

— Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy • Stephen Leacock

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