left-handed, adj.
lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
bumbling bungling butterfingered ham-fisted ham-handed handless heavy-handed left-handed
sample sentences
"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
semantic pointers
similar to
ironically ambiguous
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left-handed
rotating to the left
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left-handed levorotary levorotatory
semantic pointers
similar to
(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
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left-handed morganatic
semantic pointers
similar to
(of marriages) illicit or informal
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left-handed
sample sentences
"in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
semantic pointers
similar to
using or intended for the left hand
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left-handed
sample sentences
"left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs""left-handed scissors"