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- noun rare
prejudice orbias based on whether a person isleft-handed orright-handed
Etymologies
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Examples
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(This fetish for on-the-other-handism translates to a fetish for applauding bipartisanship as a virtue and partisanship as an evil, as if one can always split the difference to find truth.)
TIME GOES BY 2009
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The curious thing in this world is not the stupidity, but the upper-handism of the stupidity.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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The curious thing in this world is not the stupidity, but the upper-handism of the stupidity.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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I call it "on-the-other-handism," the stupid idea that there are two sides to every story.
TIME GOES BY 2009
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