(a. & adv.) Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed.

Draconian Tartarean aggressive animal antagonistic anthropophagous atrocious barbaric barbarous battling beastly bellicose belligerent bestial bloody bloody-minded brutal brutalized brute brutish cannibalistic chauvinist chauvinistic combative contentious cruel cruel-hearted cutthroat demoniac demoniacal devilish diabolic enemy fell feral ferocious fiendish fiendlike fierce fighting full of fight gory hawkish hellish homicidal hostile infernal inhuman inhumane inimical jingo jingoish jingoist jingoistic martial militant militaristic military murdering murderous offensive pitiless pugnacious quarrelsome red-handed ruthless saber-rattling sadistic sanguinary sanguine sanguineous satanic savage scrappy self-destructive sharkish slaughterous slavering soldierlike soldierly subhuman suicidal trigger-happy truculent unchristian uncivilized unfriendly unhuman unpacific unpeaceable unpeaceful vicious warlike warmongering warring wolfish