left-'handedness

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left-handed
 
adj
1.  using the left hand with greater ease than the right
2.  performed with the left hand
3.  designed or adapted for use by the left hand
4.  worn on the left hand
5.  awkward or clumsy
6.  ironically ambiguous: a left-handed compliment
7.  turning from right to left; anticlockwise
8.  law another term for morganatic
 
adv
9.  with the left hand
 
left-'handedly
 
adv
 
left-'handedness
 
n

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