double-handedly

See also: doublehandedly

English

Alternative forms

• doublehandedly

Etymology

double-handed +‎ -ly

Adverb

double-handedly (comparative more double-handedly, superlative most double-handedly)

1. Using two people.
   • 2013, Barrie Smith, Jeremy Evans, Pat Manley, The Sailing Bible: The Complete Guide for All Sailors from Novice to Experienced Skipper, →ISBN:

     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.

2. Using both hands at the same time.
   • 2007, Darien Pritchard, Dynamic Bodyuse for Effective, Strain-Free Massage, →ISBN, page 168:

     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.

3. By means of two approaches or agents
   • 2009, Brian Castro, The Bath Fugues, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2014, George Graham, The Disordered Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness, →ISBN:

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

4. Duplicitously or hypocritically.
   • 2010, Nicholas C. Eliopoulos, Constantine Versus the Bankers, →ISBN, page 207:

     NATO works double-handedly against Albanians and Serbs.