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ambidexters

ambidexters is the plural of ambidexter.

Meaning of ambidexter

Noun

ambidexter (plural ambidexters)

  1. Someone who is ambidextrous.
    Synonyms:
    ambi, amby
  2. (archaic) A lawyer who takes fees from both plaintiff and defendant.
    • But the thing which in eminent instances signalizes so exceptional a nature is this: though the man's even temper and discreet bearing would seem to intimate a mind peculiarly subject to the law of reason, not the less in his heart he would seem to riot in complete exemption from that law, having...1888–1891, Herman Melville, “(please specify |chapter=I to XXVI)”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC
  3. (broadly) Someone who is two-faced; a double-dealer, such as a cheat or a crook.
    • One takes upon him temperence, holiness […], whenas indeed he, and he, and he, and the rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, outsides, so many turning pictures, a lion on one side, a lamb on the other., New York Review of Books, 2001, p.65

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Questions about ambidexters

What is ambidexters the plural of?
Ambidexters is the plural of ambidexter.

Words near ambidexters in the dictionary

  1. ambident
  2. ambidexter
  3. ambidexterities
  4. ambidexterity
  5. ambidexterous
  6. ambidexters
  7. ambidextral
  8. ambidextrality
  9. ambidextrism
  10. ambidextrous
  11. ambidextrously

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