Meaning of ambidexter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who is ambidextrous.
2. A lawyer who takes fees from both plaintiff and defendant.
   archaic
3. Someone who is two-faced; a double-dealer, such as a cheat or a crook.
   broadly

Examples

“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 apparently little to do with reason⟳ further than to employ⟳ it as an ambidexter implement for effecting the irrational.”

“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.”

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