Red-handedness

Quick meaning: Red-handedness is a noun meaning The condition of being caught with clear evidence of guilt.

Meaning

The condition of being caught with clear evidence of guilt.

More Meanings

1. Bloodiness; murderousness.
2. The condition of having red hands.

Example Sentences

Don't ask me why, because there was no diminishment of my red-handedness when I threw the evidence to the floor.

War has been made splendid in all its red-handedness chiefly because it trains to teamwork and develops devotion to the group.

I must fable my own birth: Though you both were Very much in love under Boston's stars, Among the maples' red-handedness, Caught at the bottom of an October sky

But what constitutes the sinfulness of sin is not its enormity, its red-handedness and violence; what makes a sin something more than a crime is the fact that it affects our relation to God.

Word Forms

• redhandedness

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sure-handedness, white-handedness, ready-handedness, bloody-handedness, dirty-handedness, right-handedness.

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