单词 | ambidextrously |
释义 | ambidextrouslyadv. In an ambidextrous manner; with both hands; with great skill or dexterity. Also: so as to please two parties; in a deceitful or hypocritical manner. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > [adverb] > both sides ambidextrously1657 ambilaterally1934 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adverb] > with skill or art > ingeniously craftilyeOE wiselya1000 guisily13.. quaintc1300 quaintlyc1300 subtly1340 cunningly?a1400 subtilelyc1405 subtilelyc1405 prettilyc1450 industriouslyc1487 ingeniously1548 clerkly1594 ambidextrously1657 1657 J. Davies tr. H. D'Urfé Astrea I. 258 Living then thus ambodexterously with Florice and Dorinde, Florice began to enter into some suspition of me. 1700 S. Parker 6 Philos. Ess. 58 Most ambidextrously ye keep on the old pace. 1766 T. Sadler Poems Var. Subj. 43 Tho' ambidextrously they side, With him, yet none his Faults will hide. 1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. II. 329 To prove himself not to have been the author, [he] ambi-dexterously published another. 1837 Blackwood's Mag. 41 439 Ambidexterously plying her knitting-needles. 1920 Santa Fe Mag. Nov. 88/2 The music accompanying the frolicsome dancers was furnished by a brother clerk, who so ambidextrously tickled the ivories. 1995 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 18 Oct. f5 Harris, who made modern-day major-league history on Sept. 28 when he pitched ambidextrously against the Cincinnati Reds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1657 |
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