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"

Synonyms

• left-handed
• morganatic
• levorotary
• levorotatory
• bumbling
• bungling
• butterfingered
• ham-fisted
• ham-handed
• handless
• heavy-handed

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