redhandedly

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English

Adverb

redhandedly (comparative more redhandedly, superlative most redhandedly)

  1. 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.
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