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Ambidextrous   /ˌæmbədˈɛkstrəs/  /ˌæmbɪdˈɛkstrəs/   Listen
Ambidextrous

adjective
1.
Equally skillful with each hand.  Synonym: two-handed.
2.
Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another.  Synonyms: deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced.  "A double-dealing double agent" , "A double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"



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"Ambidextrous" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tennyson. "You'd have to learn to be ambidextrous, so that you could keep two type-writing machines going at once; and, to be perfectly frank with you, I cannot even conjure up in my fancy a picture of you knocking out a tragedy with the right hand on one machine, while your left hand is ...
— A House-Boat on the Styx • John Kendrick Bangs
 
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Words linked to "Ambidextrous" :   ambidexterity, equipoised, double-faced, dishonorable, right-handed, left-handed, dishonest



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