red-handedlyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

red-handed +‎ -ly

副詞

red-handedly (comparative more red-handedly, superlative most red-handedly)

1. Red-handed; with clear evidence of guilt.
   • 2011, Robb Forman Dew, Being Polite to Hitler: A Novel, ISBN 031612172X:

     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 .

   • 2013, Sky Nakayama & Gina Gabrielle, Phantasmagoria, ISBN 1479760897:

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

   • 2014, Kerry L. Bercher, R.E.M.F., ISBN 1312660473:

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

2. In a bloody and violent manner.
   • 2015, F. Shelton Gonkerwon, Dark Freedom: A Gloomy Tale of Once a War Divided Liberia, ISBN 1504903552:

     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.

使用する際の注意点

Only the sense of in a violent and bloody manner is comparable.