LEFT-HANDED

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

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