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left-handed

adjective

  1. using the left hand more skillfully than, and in preference to, the right
  2. done with the left hand
  3. clumsy; awkward
  4. designating an insincere or ambiguous compliment; backhanded (sense )
  5. morganatic: from the custom of having the groom give his left hand to the bride at such a wedding
  6. made for use with the left hand or by left-handed people
  7. turning from right to left; worked by counterclockwise motion
  8. designating one who swings a bat, club, etc. rightward
  9. having an asymmetrical molecular or crystal structure that is conventionally viewed as having certain components on the left side: said of an isomer that is the mirror image of one that is right-handed

adverb

  1. with the left hand: to write left-handed
  2. in such a way that the bat, club, etc. swings rightward

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