Having many abilities or uses

Usage examples of all-round.

She is a good, all-round sportswoman, is the pretty girl in the picture.

But an all-round sportswoman with a degree from Oxford and a budding career in politics makes a timid primary school teacher look and feel drab by comparison.

I am what you call your genuine all-round carnie, born and bred, taught and trained, guaranteed not to rust, bust, corrode, or explode.

Between trainers and jockeys there seemed to be an all-round edginess, sudden outbursts of rancor, and an ebbing and flowing undercurrent of resentment and distrust.

This indicates a splendid all-round competency in theft, for it starts with farthings, and works its industries all the way up to ship-loads.

Old Mother Blackcap was a pig-borer, cow-shouter and all-round veterinary witch.

But everyone agreed that the assassins' school offered the best all-round education in the world.

We had had a sail - a good all-round exciting, interesting sail - and now we thought we would have a row, just for a change like.

I know a good many people whose general hatefulness, contrariety and all-round objectionableness may well be the result of a sneeze during which the blessing was forgotten.

He rested a while to catch his breath and ease his cramped muscles then returned to the attack, straining backwards and forwards to produce an all-round widening of the post hole.

And that when he was simply seeking an all-round nervous stimulant to bring languid people up to the stresses of these pushful days.

All-round romantic hero, come to save us worthless pussy-whipped peons.

Mr Hartley was dead-set against changing the town's name to one suggested by a man who had proved to be a thief, fornicator, false prophet, and all-round snake in the grass.