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left-handed in WordNet English dictionary
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
bumbling bungling butterfingered ham-fisted ham-handed handless heavy-handed left-handed
- using or intended for the left hand
"left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors"
left-handed
- ironically ambiguous
"a left-handed compliment"
left-handed
- rotating to the left
levorotary levorotatory left-handed
- (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
- (of marriages) illicit or informal
"in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
left-handed
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