double-handedly
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double-handedly
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From double-handed + -ly.
adverb more double-handedly · most double-handedly · doublehandedly
- Using two people. 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.
- Using both hands at the same time. 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.
- By means of two approaches or agents 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.
- Duplicitously or hypocritically. NATO works double-handedly against Albanians and Serbs.
Talk about this word "double-handedly." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/double-handedly. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. double-handedly. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/double-handedly "double-handedly." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/double-handedly.Cite this
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