Synonyms for ambidextrousness
noun deceit- ambidexterity
- artifice
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- craft
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceitfulness
- deception
- dishonesty
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- fraud
- fraudulence
- guile
- hypocrisy
- imposition
- pretense
- slyness
- trapping
- treachery
- trickery
- cozening
- defrauding
- dirty dealing
- dirty pool
- dissemblance
- entrapping
- overreaching
- smoke and mirrors
- two-facedness
- two-timing
- underhandedness
Antonyms for ambidextrousness
- artlessness
- fairness
- forthrightness
- frankness
- honesty
- honor
- openness
- reality
- sincerity
- trustworthiness
- truth
- truthfulness
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shiftiness
noun. deceit
- ambidexterity
- ambidextrousness
- artifice
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- cozening
- craft
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceitfulness
- deception
- defrauding
- dirty dealing
- dirty pool
- dishonesty
- dissemblance
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- entrapping
- fraud
- fraudulence
- guile
- hypocrisy
- imposition
- overreaching
- pretense
- slyness
- smoke and mirrors
- trapping
- treachery
- trickery
- two-facedness
- two-timing
- underhandedness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
Word Origin & History
1640s, with -ous, from ambidexter (adj.) "double-dealing" (1610s), from French ambidextre or directly from Latin ambidexter, literally "right-handed on both sides," from ambi- "both" (see ambi-) + dexter "right-handed" (see dexterity). Its opposite, ambilevous "left-handed on both sides, clumsy" (1640s) is rare. Ambidexter as a noun, "one who takes bribes from both sides," is attested from 1530s and is the earliest form of the word in English; its sense of "one who uses both hands equally well" appears by 1590s.