Crossword clues for ambidextrous
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ambidextrous \Am`bi*dex"trous\, a.
Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease.
--Sir T. Browne.-
Practicing or siding with both parties.
All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings.
--L'Estrange.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, with -ous, from ambidexter (adj.) "double-dealing" (1610s), from French ambidextre or directly from Latin ambidexter, literally "right-handed on both sides," from ambi- "both" (see ambi-) + dexter "right-handed" (see dexterity). Its opposite, ambilevous "left-handed on both sides, clumsy" (1640s) is rare. Ambidexter as a noun, "one who takes bribes from both sides," is attested from 1530s and is the earliest form of the word in English; its sense of "one who uses both hands equally well" appears by 1590s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having equal ability in both hands; in particular, able to write equally well with both hands. 2 Equally usable by left-handed and right-handed people (gloss: as a tool or instrument). 3 Practising or siding with both parties. 4 (context humorous English) Of a person, bisexual.
WordNet
adj. equally skillful with each hand; "an ambidextrous surgeon" [syn: two-handed] [ant: right-handed, left-handed]
marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray [syn: deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued]
Wikipedia
Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children (1985), is a novel by the American author Felice Picano. The book is a semi- autobiographical account of the author's life growing up in the 1950s. Major themes include adolescent sexuality and coming out.
A "bold, funny and excruciatingly honest" biographic tale of the author's own childhood and coming out experience, that inevitably affects the reader's retrospective view of his own childhood memories.
When it was first published, the novel was perceived as so scandalous in Great Britain that it was burned on arrival directly at the London docks. Still, or perhaps because of its reception upon release, the book has received classical status and has been re-released on more than one occasion, the latest release being in 2003.
Usage examples of "ambidextrous".
As he was ambidextrous, I suggested the use of the two names Weltz and Rizzi, the former to be written with his right and the latter with his left hand.
Ice Tongue in my newly healed hand, but I was not ambidextrous in battle.
When in the seventh round Erik leans in and takes the last of these, an ambidextrous first baseman from the University of Pittsburgh named Brant Colamarino, Paul wears an expression of pure bliss.
He gives Tim cookies while addressing the boxes, exhibiting that ambidextrous bilateral competence so characteristic of contemporary American parents - all boasting hypertrophic corpora callosa, no doubt, could one but see them.
He gives Tim cookies while addressing the boxes, exhibiting that ambidextrous bilateral competence so characteristic of contemporary American parents - all boasting hypertrophic corpora callosa, no doubt, could one but see them.
Ice Tongue in my newly healed hand, but I was not ambidextrous in battle.
Was it possible, he asked himself, his gift was his ambidextrous ability with revolvers?
Like all First Level people, he was ambidextrous, although, like all paratimers, he habitually concealed the fact while outtime.
Although ambidextrous, the robot had a lot of limits, one of which was the physics of ballistics.
It was double action, with a twelve-round magazine, a decocking lever to silently lower a fully cocked hammer, and ambidextrous safety and magazine release catches.
Or ambidextrous, because your left brain is so powerful, I can’.
But with left-handers and ambidextrous people there is no such pattern.