criminal vs red-handed

criminal

adj
  • Guilty of breaking the law. 

  • Against the law; forbidden by law. 

  • Abhorrent or very undesirable. 

  • Of or relating to crime or penal law. 

noun
  • A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law. 

red-handed

adj
  • Showing clear evidence of guilt; in the act of wrongdoing. 

  • Deadly, bloody. 

  • With hands that are red from blood. 

How often have the words criminal and red-handed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )