none-too-clean

“Poisoning the Press” is a delicious tale of the battle between scoundrels in high places and a none-too-clean journalist intent on digging up the dirt.

Reporters and White House at war Steven E. Levingston 2010

Several of the parking structures had been refitted with windows, long rows of tinted black, reflecting none-too-clean in the midafternoon sun.

Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 6.1 of 31.1 2009

If it is illegitimate for government ever to employ such weapons, why should they be allowed to remain, fully loaded, in their none-too-clean hands?

EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 14, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I enquired as she sloshed cognac into a none-too-clean tumbler and slid it over the tarnished veneer towards me.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

Her hair was invisible beneath a headscarf, her figure swathed in a none-too-clean apron.

A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

Her hair was invisible beneath a headscarf, her figure swathed in a none-too-clean apron.

A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

The single large room was very much like any inn in the World Above, even to the smell of spilled ale and wine and the tired bar woman going about and wiping the tables with a none-too-clean rag.

Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

Selbourne regarded the none-too-clean Desmond with a trepidation born of a long history of dealing with climbers assigned to his unit.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

Selbourne regarded the none-too-clean Desmond with a trepidation born of a long history of dealing with climbers assigned to his unit.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

Yet there he stood, alone, dressed in a none-too-clean blue corporate coverall, with a broad smile and an outstretched hand ready to shake mine after I hastily put down my encumbering carry-on case.

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998