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English Dictionary: ambidextrous by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ambidextrous
adj
  1. equally skillful with each hand; "an ambidextrous surgeon"
    Synonym(s): ambidextrous, two-handed
    Antonym(s): left- handed, right-handed
  2. 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
    Synonym(s): ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ambidextrous \Am`bi*dex"trous\, a.
      1. Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease.
            --Sir T. Browne.
  
      2. Practicing or siding with both parties.
  
                     All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings.
                                                                              --L'Estrange.
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