(n.) The quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility.
(n.) Versatility; general readiness; as, ambidexterity of argumentation.
(n.) Double-dealing.
(n.) A juror's taking of money from the both parties for a verdict.
Example Sentences:
(1) The posterior lesions, however, may have lowered the frequency of ambidexterity, a finding interpreted in terms of theoretical arguments concerning bilateral symmetry and the discrimination and memory of left and right.
(2) There were no significant differences in the prevalence of left-handedness or non-right-handedness (i.e., left-handedness and ambidexterity combined) between schizophrenic patients and normal subjects.
(3) The addition of a strength of preference scale makes the "mixed" classification a better indicator of ambidexterity than in the original inventory by eliminating from it subjects who show preference for the same hand for nearly all tasks.
(4) No differences could be found either for the right or for the left hand in force of handgrip between right- and left-handed and ambidexterous children.
(5) On the paper-and-pencil task 84% of the children were classified as right-handers, 8% as left-handers, and 8% as ambidexterous.
(6) In 5 with ambidexterity high tone audiometry failed to show any significant preference.
(7) The majority of that group of children included those with ambidexterity and left-handedness.
(8) It is assumed that in children with GSD ambidexterity may be of pathological nature.
(9) Analysis shows significantly more right-handedness in women and ambidexterity in men.
(10) Greater dissociation was statistically associated with ambidexterity of these undergraduates.
(11) The cats with ambidexterity and right-preference in paw use did not show any visible tremorogenic action of these drugs.
(12) In parents and siblings similar changes of laterality of the hand were found, in particular as regards defined and little defined dextrolaterality but not as far as ambidexterity is concerned.
Sinister
Definition:
(a.) On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.
(a.) Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
(a.) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
(a.) Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(2) He should not try to play political games with the darkest and most sinister chapter of Europe’s history.
(3) The American actor played sinister rookie methylamine chemist Todd Alquist in the final season of Breaking Bad.
(4) Camille O'Sullivan In 2007, the sinister, humorous gem Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea spread like wildfire just after its opening, and you had to kill to get a ticket.
(5) Wenger had complained of a sinister media plot to brainwash Arsenal's home fans, as though they were easily led and swing in the breeze, but it all was sweetness and light as Aaron Ramsey continued his early season swagger.
(6) The Chinese government is depicted as benevolent, while the US government manages to be both sinister and useless – typified by the black-clad CIA operatives, one of whom gets beaten up by a Chinese character.
(7) The results showed a very good distribution of 100% or 90% in the bronchi principals dexter and sinister.
(8) The Velvet Underground’s sinisterly thrilling, entirely unapologetic musical portraits of New York’s gay, drug-taking demimonde must have seemed overwhelming to a British suburban kid in the late 60s.
(9) The latest film sees Bond travel from Mexico to the Sahara desert, Italy and the Austrian Alps in pursuit of SPECTRE – an acronym for Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion – the sinister organisation intent on world domination.
(10) Sinister individuals in lab coats "advising" from behind the scenes?
(11) "But this can be taken out of my hands in a number of sinister ways."
(12) The police had handed control of the investigation to Paul Britton, a grandstanding and, in my view, faintly sinister, psychologist.
(13) The stories range from the subtly sinister to the outrageously gothic.
(14) Other more sinister forces have tried to tap into the widespread hostility towards the banking system.
(15) Rumours abound that Trump has had some link to Putin’s sinister finances.
(16) This is especially so where its occasional presentation as polypoid lesions of the lower respiratory tract may mimic other more sinister lesions and lead to unwarranted invasive procedures by the unsuspecting clinician.
(17) It would be possible to write off the Swartz prosecution (as some have done) as the action of a politically ambitious attorney general, but actually it fits a much more sinister pattern.
(18) In retrospect, the movement was not just horrific but often ludicrous in its paranoia: the most "sinister" aspect of one supposed conspiracy, notes the book Mao's Last Revolution , was that even some of its core members appeared unaware of its existence.
(19) I don’t know how well thought-through they have been with it.” “You have a medical issue at your home, you call police, you don’t expect it to to be recorded on video forever, and for somebody to come and request [it] and be used against you in some sinister way,” said Gibbons, about the recordings potentially being public record.
(20) EL: The first psychiatrist I saw subscribed very much to the same view as my friend and the GP – that my voice (and bear in mind, it's still only a single voice at this time) was a sinister harbinger of something much more serious.