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left-handed
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Adjective
  • lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
    • a bumbling mechanic
    • a bungling performance
    • ham-handed governmental interference
    • could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature- Mary H. Vorse
  • ironically ambiguous
    • a left-handed compliment
  • rotating to the left
  • (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior
  • (of marriages) illicit or informal
    • in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent
  • using or intended for the left hand
    • left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs
    • left-handed scissors
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