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LEFT-HANDED

Definition:

1. [adjective] using or intended for the lefts hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors"
   
   
2. [adjective] (of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
   
   
3. [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
   Synonyms: morganatic
   
   
4. [adjective] rotating to the left
   Synonyms: levorotary, levorotatory
   
   
5. [adjective] ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment"
   
   
6. [adjective] not skillful in physical movement 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
   Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed
   
   

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