Meaning of double-handedly | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Using two people.
2. Using both hands at the same time.
3. By means of two approaches or agents
4. Duplicitously or hypocritically.

Examples

“Dinghies are designed to be sailed single-handedly or double-handedly, but some larger cruising dinghies may have room for four or more people on board.”

“Working double-handedly also conserves your hands in large kneading strokes, for example when you are working on the adductors on the inside of the thigh.”

“I said I was writing my memoirs, a choppy musical dedicated to counterpoint, without the axes of time and place, collapsing in upon itself because the notes will inevitably run out, returning, elaborating, crisscrossing, double-handedly creating variations upon a theme.”

“The combination of discontent and economic collapse brought about the revolution. It did not do so simply double-handedly.”

“NATO works double-handedly against Albanians and Serbs.”

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