Synonyms for double-edged
dou·ble-edged

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1. double-edgedadjective

   Antonyms:
   single-edged

2. double-edgedadjective

   Antonyms:
   single-edged

3. double-edgedadjective

   Slander is a double-edged weapon: you can hurt the reputation of another but it diminishes your own reputation that you debase yourself so much.

   Antonyms:
   single-edged

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1. double-edgedadjective

   capable of being interpreted in two usually contradictory ways

   "double-edged praise"

   Antonyms:
   unambiguous

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1. List of paraphrases for "double-edged":

   two-edged, ambivalent

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1. Justin Bartholomew:

   It’s a double-edged sword – energy drinks are bad for you because of the sugar and the caffeine, but, also, if you are drinking these drinks and you have depression, it is a lethal combination.

2. Asher Weinberger:

   Everything is a double-edged sword, the sharing economy has done so much for the world and for people. On the other hand, there is an underbelly of that. There's a dark side of that, like everything in life, right ?

3. Wu Ting-Fang:

   Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

4. Justin Dargin:

   This is a double-edged sword, if oil prices remain low, it is likely that its Gulf patrons will be forced to reduce some of their funding.

5. Ravi Gupta:

   While further work is needed to corroborate these findings, overall, it suggests that omicron’s mutations present the virus with a double-edged sword: it’s got better at evading the immune system, but it might have lost some of its ability to cause severe disease.