red-handedly

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1. Red-handed; with clear evidence of guilt.

   But even though she red-handedly catches them, Jason doubts that she would punish Kayla.

   2013, Sky Nakayama, Gina Gabrielle, Phantasmagoria, →ISBN

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   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

   This convinced the ARVNs that they had caught VC looters red-handedly stealing from the PX.

   2014, Kerry L. Bercher, R.E.M.F., →ISBN

   Synonyms: bang to rights, dead to rights, bang to rights, blameworthily, compunctiously, dead to rights, guiltylike, guiltily

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