left-handed
左撇子,左手,左旋,左利
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- : having the left hand more dominant or effective than the right; preferably using the left hand: a left-handed pitcher.
- : adapted to or performed by the left hand: a left-handed tool; a left-handed tennis serve.
- : situated on the side of the left hand.
- : Machinery. rotating counterclockwise.noting a helical or spiral member, as a gear tooth or screw thread, that twists counterclockwise as it recedes from an observer.
- : Building Trades. left-hand.
- : ambiguous or doubtful and often unfavorable or derogatory by implication: a left-handed compliment.
- : clumsy or awkward.
- : of, relating to, or issuing from a morganatic marriage: so called from the custom, in morganatic marriage ceremonies, of having the bridegroom give his left hand to the bride.
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- : with the left hand: He writes left-handed.
- : toward the left hand; in a counterclockwise direction: The strands of the rope are laid left-handed.
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Examples
Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.
Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.
The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.
What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.
The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
She had just left the wharf at Cincinnati for Louisville, with 225 passengers on board, of whom but 124 were saved.
Thus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.