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left-handed in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. 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
    bumbling  bungling  butterfingered  ham-fisted  ham-handed  handless  heavy-handed  left-handed 
  2. using or intended for the left hand
    "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors"
    left-handed 
  3. ironically ambiguous
    "a left-handed compliment"
    left-handed 
  4. rotating to the left
    levorotary  levorotatory  left-handed 
  5. (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
    morganatic  left-handed 
  6. (of marriages) illicit or informal
    "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
    left-handed 
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