redhandedly
See also: red-handedly
English
editAdverb
editredhandedly (comparative more redhandedly, superlative most redhandedly)
- Alternative form of red-handedly
- 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake:
- ...next those ars, rrrr! those ars all bellical, the highpriest's hieroglyph of kettletom and oddsbones, wrasted redhandedly from our hallowed rubric prayer for truce with booty, ...
- 1946, Reuben Lukens Underhill, From Cowhides to Golden Fleece, →ISBN, page 21:
- The only crime was in being detected too flagrantly and redhandedly.
- 1989, Gilbert Debusscher, Henry I. Schvey, Marc Maufort, New Essays on American Drama - Volumes 75-76, →ISBN, page 202:
- As a result, the night after the great discovery, he takes off with the few artefacts already unearthed from the tomb, followed by Dan who caught him redhandedly, and runs a bulldozer over the site.