left-handed


Meanings

  • using or intended for the left hand;
    • "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"
    • "left-handed scissors"
  • (of marriages) illicit or informal;
    • "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
  • (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
  • rotating to the left
  • ironically ambiguous;
    • "a left-handed compliment"
  • lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; - Mary H. Vorse
    • "a bumbling mechanic"
    • "a bungling performance"
    • "ham-handed governmental interference"
    • "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"


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