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How(How) can I use a color as an adverb, or can't I?

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(How) How can I use a color as an adverb, or can't I?

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(How) can I use a color as an adverb?

The sentence

The beautifully highlighted word caught her eye.

works well. Now I want to say the same thing but instead of expressing that the highlighting was beautiful, I want to point out that it was red. However, to my (non-native) English mind, both "redly" and

The red highlighted word caught her eye.

just sound wrong.

Is there a word I can place in this sentence to say that the highlighting is red?

(I know that I could resort to completely different constructions like "The word highlighted in red" but that's not what this question is about.)