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   left-handed

   /ˌlɛftˈhandɪd/

   adjective

   • 1. (of a person) using the left hand more naturally than the right: "a left-handed batsman" Similar sinistralinformal:southpawOpposite right-handed
   • ▪ (of a tool or item of equipment) made to be used with the left hand: "left-handed golf clubs"
   • ▪ made or done with the left hand: "my left-handed scrawl"
   • 2. (of a screw) advanced by turning anticlockwise.
   • ▪ (of a spiral shell or helix) sinistral.
   • ▪ (of a racecourse) turning anticlockwise: "Newbury's left-handed track"
   • 3. perverse: "we take a left-handed pleasure in our errors"
   • ▪ (especially of a compliment) ambiguous. Similar backhandedambiguousequivocaluncertaindouble-meaningdouble-edgeddubiousindirectenigmaticcrypticparadoxicalironicsardonicinsincerehypocriticalOpposite forthright

   adverb

   • 1. with the left hand: "a significant number play the game left-handed"

   Derivatives

   • 1. left-handedly adverb
   • 2. left-handedness noun

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