redhandedness

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redhandedness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of red-handedness
    • 2008, Clarence Major, My Amputations, →ISBN, page 192:
      He was in the redhandedness of impeccable sleep when the pounding came at the hotel door.
    • 1970, Farouk M. Luqman, Yemen 1970, page 69:
      lt is not permissible to take any step or impose penalties against any member of the National Assembly except in the following cases : a) ln the event of redhandedness b)...
    • 1971, Report: Nigeria Board of Inquiry into the Affairs of the Amalgamated Dockworkers Transport and General Workers' Union, page 32:
      Redhandedness is also an instrument a contractor employs to keep us in submission. We don't like it.