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red-handedly

red-handedly adverb: red-handed; with clear evidence of guilt.

Adverb

red-handedly (comparative more red-handedly, superlative most red-handedly)

  1. Red-handed; with clear evidence of guilt.
    • And even though a moment earlier he had felt guilty not to have taken Dave's anguish more to heart, Claytor found himself annoyed at being caught red-handedly dogless .2011, Robb Forman Dew, Being Polite to Hitler: A Novel, →ISBN
    • But even though she red-handedly catches them, Jason doubts that she would punish Kayla.2013, Sky Nakayama, Gina Gabrielle, Phantasmagoria, →ISBN
  2. In a bloody and violent manner.
    • A SATU fellow, trawled redhandedly following an exchange of gunfire, was ordered executed before us upon his confession of how the SATU had planned to destroy human being in the Grey stone Compound.2015, F. Shelton Gonkerwon, Dark Freedom: A Gloomy Tale of Once a War Divided Liberia, →ISBN

Synonyms of red-handedly

Forms of red-handedly

comparativemore red-handedly
superlativemost red-handedly
alternative formredhandedly
alternative formred-handed
alternative formredhanded

Origin of red-handedly

From red-handed + -ly.

Questions about red-handedly

What does red-handedly mean?
Red-handedly means red-handed; with clear evidence of guilt.
What part of speech is red-handedly?
Red-handedly is an adverb.

Words near red-handedly in the dictionary

  1. red-green-brown alliances
  2. red-greens
  3. red-gum
  4. red-haired
  5. red-handed
  6. red-handedly
  7. red-handedness
  8. red-headed
  9. red-headed Eskimo
  10. red-headed Eskimos
  11. red-headed honeyeater

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