Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket …

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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated), p.2355, Delphi Classics
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IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. ✨ Ambrose Bi … ▶
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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated), p.2355, Delphi Classics

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