Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being ambidextrous.
- noun Deceit or hypocrisy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The faculty of using both hands with equal facility.
- noun Double-dealing; duplicity.
- noun In law, the taking of money by a juror from both parties for a verdict.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility.
- noun (Law) Double-dealing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Property of being equally
skillful with each hand (from the idea that either hand is like theright-hand ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being equally skillful with each hand
Etymologies
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Examples
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His ambidexterity and facile handstopped witha face right out of Harry Potter recall a Doonesbury character.
Carole Mallory: Tim Lincecum, World Series Champion Carole Mallory 2010
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(When you had Room 405 on reserve, with the key clinking in your pocket and you couldn't wait to show off your bra-removal ambidexterity.)
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: Picking your Pic(k) -- A Primer 2010
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It takes intense focus and a deft ambidexterity honed by hours of practice.
In This Sport, It's All About How You Stack Up Against the Competition 2009
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Hmm..the mild ambidexterity I referred to doesn't measure up: I throw left-handed, draw right handed.
Abe in Two James Gurney 2009
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I agree with you that I think we can be both, but perhaps it's the culinary equivalent of ambidexterity?
Baking Class Brilynn 2008
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Corporalita - the cultivation of grace, ambidexterity, fitness and poise
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The classical Sinawali, a double-stick style popular in the Central Luzon plains, is fluid and requires ambidexterity - a primer for the sword and dagger system.
notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2004
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The classical Sinawali, a double-stick style popular in the Central Luzon plains, is fluid and requires ambidexterity - a primer for the sword and dagger system.
Archive 2004-02-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004
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It's also well correlated with other incomplete or abnormal brain differentiation syndromes such as dyslexia, ambidexterity, and Asperger's.
Risk Factors : A Full House Zoe Brain 2005
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Greater creativity too, sometimes ambidexterity, occasionally Dyslexia and/or Asperger's as downsides.
What's it Like? Zoe Brain 2005
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