keeps ones nose clean (verb) behave: act reasonably, properly
Sinonime: atoning, attritional, compunctious,
conciliatory, contrite, expiatory, explanatory, on one's knees, penitent, penitential, propitiatory,
regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful, self-effacing, self-incriminating,
sorry, supplicating
Antonime: defiant, defying