left-handed
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(a) using or intended for the left hand
- left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs
- left-handed scissors
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(s) (of marriages) illicit or informal
- in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent
- (s) (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 morganatic,
- (s) rotating to the left levorotary, levorotatory,
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(s) ironically ambiguous
- a left-handed compliment
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(s) 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