left-handed

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"It's a left-handed lug nut for a 1975 Vespa scooter.

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Quick take

using or intended for the left hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

using or intended for the left hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors"

adjective

(of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for left-handed.

adjective

using or intended for the left hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors"

adjective

(of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"

adjective

rotating to the left

adjective

ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment"

adjective

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

Example sentences

"It's a left-handed lug nut for a 1975 Vespa scooter.

I knew a left-handed math prof who had had that treatment growing up in Holland.

Some of the Linux GUIs used to have a feature that, if you set the mouse to left-handed, the cursor would tilt the other way.

White was left-handed, according to \n family members.

Sinister itself derives from the Latin, meaning left-handed.

"BikeTek sells and repairs all kinds of bicycles, with an emphasis on left-handed 7-wheeled racing bicycles.

Looks like they want their controller to be fully symmetric so it could be reprogrammed for left-handed users without making compromises.

It also required left-handed students to write with their right hand, because English runs from right to left and this method requires your other hand to manipulate the paper.

For example, some researchers have reported a 'tall left-handed blonde effect', where the results can only be duplicated by tall left-handed blondes.

The reducto-ad-absurdum against manufactured diversity is that I don't see anyone arguing that transgenders, veterans, BNP members or left-handed people are underrepresented in the UK ruby community.