Red-handed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Red-handed is an adjective meaning (idiomatic) Showing clear evidence of guilt; in the act of wrongdoing.
Meaning
(idiomatic) Showing clear evidence of guilt; in the act of wrongdoing.
More Meanings
- Deadly, bloody.
- (informal) With hands that are red from blood.
Example Sentences
to catch red-handed
Caught, red-handed, on the spot, in the very act of aiding and abetting the traitors against the Republic of France, the Englishman could claim no protection from his own country.
Another Southerner argued that "commerce has no social illusions" and that it would be commerce that would rid the region of "this historic, red-handed, deformed, and swaggering villain."
Railway police are making a full investigation into the matter, and the headmasters of schools have been approached, but it is difficult in such cases to discover the culprits, unless they are caught red-handed.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dead-handed, notorious, flagrant, glaring, blatant, flaming.
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