eng: left-handed

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

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