red-handedly
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red-handedly
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From red-handed + -ly.
adverb more red-handedly · most red-handedly · redhandedly · red-handed · redhanded
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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 .
Similar: bang to rights, dead to rights, blameworthily, compunctiously, guiltylike, guiltily, nocently, red-handedly
- 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.
Talk about this word "red-handedly." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/red-handedly. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. red-handedly. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/red-handedly "red-handedly." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/red-handedly.Cite this
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