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PRONUNCIATION OF RED-HANDEDNESS

red-handedness  [ˌrɛdˈhændɪdnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RED-HANDEDNESS

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adjective
verb
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pronoun
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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Red-Handedness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RED-HANDEDNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of red-handedness in the English dictionary

The definition of red-handedness in the dictionary is the state of being caught in the act of committing a crime or doing something wrong or shameful.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RED-HANDEDNESS


backhandedness
ˌbækˈhændɪdnəs
bloody-mindedness
ˌblʌdɪˈmaɪndɪdnəs
boundedness
ˈbaʊndɪdnəs
broad-mindedness
ˌbrɔːdˈmaɪndɪdnəs
fair-mindedness
ˌfɛəˈmaɪndɪdnəs
forehandedness
ˌfɔːˈhændɪdnəs
heavy-handedness
ˌhevɪˈhændɪdnəs
high-handedness
ˌhaɪˈhændɪdnəs
high-mindedness
ˌhaɪˈmaɪndɪdnəs
left-handedness
ˌlɛftˈhændɪdnəs
like-mindedness
ˌlaɪkˈmaɪndɪdnəs
open-handedness
ˌəʊpənˈhændɪdnəs
right-handedness
ˌraɪtˈhændɪdnəs
roundedness
ˈraʊndɪdnəs
simple-mindedness
ˌsɪmpəlˈmaɪndɪdnəs
splendidness
ˈsplɛndɪdnəs
strandedness
ˈstrændɪdnəs
unboundedness
ʌnˈbaʊndɪdnəs
underhandedness
ˌʌndəˈhændɪdnəs
weak-mindedness
ˌwiːkˈmaɪndɪdnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RED-HANDEDNESS

red-breasted merganser
red-card
red-carpet treatment
red-eye
red-eyed
red-faced
red-facedly
red-haired
red-handed
red-handedly
red-headed
red-hot
red-hot poker
red-lead ore
red-legged partridge
red-letter day
red-light district
red-necked grebe
red-osier dogwood
red-pencil

WORDS THAT END LIKE RED-HANDEDNESS

awkwardness
baldness
blindness
boldness
business
fondness
goodness
hardness
indebtedness
kindness
loudness
madness
mindedness
oddness
preparedness
redness
sadness
soundness
tiredness
weirdness
wickedness

Synonyms and antonyms of red-handedness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «red-handedness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RED-HANDEDNESS

Find out the translation of red-handedness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of red-handedness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «red-handedness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

红霸道
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rojo imparcialidad
570 millions of speakers

English

red-handedness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लाल मनमानी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أحمر الإنصاف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

красный беспристрастность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vermelho imparcialidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লাল-স্বেচ্ছাচারপূর্ণতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rouge impartialité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Red-handedness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

rot - Händigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

赤利き手
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

붉은 왼손잡이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Red-handedness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

màu đỏ thuận tay
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிவப்பு கைப்பழக்கம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लाल-हात
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kırmızı-ellilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

red - handedness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

czerwony bezstronności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

червоний неупередженість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

roșu - generozitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κόκκινο - χεριού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rooi -willekeur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

red- handedness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rød - handedness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of red-handedness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RED-HANDEDNESS»

The term «red-handedness» is barely ever used and occupies the 209.961 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about red-handedness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RED-HANDEDNESS»

Discover the use of red-handedness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to red-handedness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western ...
Viola's red-handedness is an emblem of her guilt; thus, to cut off her hands would be appropriate and even just, not only in terms of what is loosely referred to as “ Old Testament justice” but in the gruesome, fantastic manner of some of the ...
Craig S. Walker, 2001
2
The International
Across the hall Bosko saw the suns last glimpse, it was like a red eye, a dying blast of light — a salute to the blood spilt in the fortress and the red-handedness of the villain who they closed in on. Bosko sensed his victory, and relished it.
Harry Skiverton, 2013
3
Chaucer's England
which seems least like what we now call England is the red-handedness of religious persecution, and the odd manner in which spiritual and secular personages jumble their functions and thwart each other on exactly the same principles, ...
Matthew Browne, Geoffrey Chaucer, 1869
4
The Chronicles of a Cynic
(Don't ask me why, because there was no diminishment of my red-handedness when I threw the evidence to the floor.) I must have had a momentary lapse of reason, and I wasn't helping my situation a bit as I stood frozen, staring blankly but in ...
Christian M. Fletcher, 2003
5
The Saxon Mirror: A Sachsenspiegel of the Fourteenth Century
74. werdin des mannesphert oder ochsen unde wagen bestetigit in der hanthaften tat: the concept of red-handedness (handhafte tat) , in which evidence of the deed marks the perpetrator or cause, is strictly a legal concept; it is not intended ...
Maria Dobozy, 1999
6
Merkabah Rider: Tales of a High Planes Drifter
He stared with the reserved fury of the man used to red-handedness into The Rider's eyes, which were fixed on the pale eye of Kelly, fluttering with an effort to keep from rolling in their sockets. “How did you get here through the storm, pendejo ...
Edward M. Erdelac, Tim Marquitz, 2009
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Chaucer's England, by Matthew Browne
which seems least like what we now call England is the red-handedness of religious persecution, and the odd manner in which spiritual and secular personages jumble their functions and thwart each other on exactly the same principles, ...
William Brighty Rands, 1869
8
Plato's Penal Code: Tradition, Controversy, And Reform in ...
Cohen (1983) 90. Red-handedness may have been the defining characteristic of theft in which self- help followed by the death penalty was possible: Cohen (1983 ) 52-61, but cf. MacDowell (1984) 230-1. Carawan (1984), however, argues that ...
Trevor J. Saunders, 1991
9
Rhodesian Law Reports
26A-B): "This view is supported by the element of red handedness which the judicial dicta have given to the phrase 'found in possession'.". F The learned judge went on to say (obiter) at page 26 E-F: "It (i.e. the expression any firearm') means ...
‎1974
10
Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology
blackened pig grease which is rubbed into the hair of Dani of all ages usually obscures any traces of the red. HANDEDNESS The incidence of left-handedness seems to be high. Of the 148 males in the Dugum Neighborhood, some half- dozen ...
Karl G. Heider, 1970

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