1. left-handed

using or intended for the left hand

Example Sentences:
'left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs'
'left-handed scissors'

• left
• left-hand
• sinistral

2. left-handed

(of marriages) illicit or informal

Example Sentences:
'in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent'

3. left-handed, morganatic

(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

• morganatic

4. left-handed, levorotary, levorotatory

rotating to the left

• levorotary
• levorotatory

• anticlockwise
• contraclockwise
• counterclockwise

5. left-handed

ironically ambiguous

Example Sentences:
'a left-handed compliment'

6. bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed

lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands

Example Sentences:
'a bumbling mechanic'
'a bungling performance'
'ham-handed governmental interference'
'could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature'

• bumbling
• bungling
• butterfingered
• ham-fisted
• ham-handed
• handless
• heavy-handed