redhandedly

comparative more redhandedly · superlative most redhandedly

1. alternativeAlternative form of red-handedly.

   The only crime was in being detected too flagrantly and redhandedly.

   1946, Reuben Lukens Underhill, From Cowhides to Golden Fleece, →ISBN, page 21

   2 more examples

   ...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, ...

   1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

   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.

   1989, Gilbert Debusscher, Henry I. Schvey, Marc Maufort, New Essays on American Drama - Volumes 75-76, →ISBN, page 202