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Definition of Red-handed

1. Adjective. In the act of committing a crime or other reprehensible act. "Caught red-handed"

2. Adverb. Doing something reprehensible or showing clear evidence of having done something reprehensible. "He was caught red-handed"

Definition of Red-handed

1. Adverb. (idiomatic) In the act of wrongdoing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Red-handed

1. Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Red-handed

red-crested pochard red-crested pochards red-deer red-eared slider red-eared sliders red-eye red-eyed vireo red-faced red-faced cormorant red-flowered silky oak

red-green color blindness red-green colour blindness red-green dichromacy red-gum red-haired red-handed (current term) red-headed red-header red-hot poker red-ink

red-lead putty red-leaved red-leg red-legged partridge red-legged tinamou red-legged tinamous red-legs red-letter red-letter day

Literary usage of Red-handed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"... devoted to the religious life screened murderers red- handed after the commission of what we should regard not merely as criminal, but also as dastardly ..."

2. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1862)
"child the germs of hereditary sin ; in every murderer who goes red- handed from his cups to the felon's cell, and thence to his Maker's presence,—if we were ..."

3. Book-song: An Anthology of Poems of Books and Bookmen from Modern Authors by Gleeson White (1893)
"... bruised and marred between two babes that bleed, A mad red-handed husband's martyr fall; } The scene which crossed and streaked with mirth the strife Of ..."

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