redhandedly

redhandedly

See also: red-handedly

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.