ambidextrous

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She is ambidextrous, as witness the following observations.

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  1. adjective Able to use both hands with equal facility.
  2. adjective Unusually skillful; adroit.
  3. adjective Deceptive or hypocritical.

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  • Even if he was ambidextrous, he would have difficulty injecting himself there with his left hand, even with a small syringe I can see that Hennessey mimicked the motion of injecting himself on his upper right shoulder. —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2005
  • (It would seem that he must always have been somewhat ambidextrous, for despite his remark at the time that the left hand was learning to perform the functions of the right “awkwardly and slowly,” there was nothing clumsy about the very readable script that it produced.) —  Understanding Thomas Jefferson
  • These extra buttons are surprisingly simple to use, as they are designed to naturally come in contact with your thumb, noting that the DeathAdder is only for right handers (lefties like me will have to become ambidextrous or look somewhere else: P). —  Atomic
  • The joystick is fully ambidextrous, has 16 switches (12 on base and 4 on stick), four axes and is plug & play. —  Gaming Nexus
  • His work strikes me as ambidextrous, even ambiguous, moving between themes and motifs, just as freely as he moves between style and genre. —  Personism
 

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  1. Alteration of archaic ambidexter, from Middle English, double dealer, from Medieval Latin : Latin ambi-, on both sides; see ambi- + Latin dexter, right-handed; see deks- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from ambidexter + -ous, after dexterous.
 

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/æmbɪˈdɛkstrəs/
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