Learn English – How to describe a person with no criminal record

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The only word I know to describe such a person is clean. I tried to find out an adjective or a phrase that explicitly talks about criminal record, but couldn't succeed.

Examples:

  • There is no criminal record, he/she is + adjective.

  • There is no criminal record, he/she is + phrase (e.g. adverb + adjective).

Is there such an adjective or a phrase?

Best Answer

clean

adjective (HONEST)
​C2 honest or fair, or showing that you have not done anything illegal:

The judge took the defendant's clean record (= the absence of previous involvement in crime) into account when passing sentence.

I've always had a clean driving licence.

The first cited use case should be enough to show that clean does work, although in qualifying the noun "record" not "defendant."

To extend the meaning to the person, we can use the sense of "17. honourable or respectable."

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