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Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Looking at the origin:
ambi, Greek: both;
anti, Greek: against, opposed;
dexter, Latin: right, skilful, clever; sinister, Latin: left, wrong, evil;

So sinister is already anti-dexter, the ambi just emphasises that this not-skilfulness applies to both hands.

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