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| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| ADJECTIVE | 1 | left-handed | Using or intended for the left hand |
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| 2 | left-handed | (of marriages) illicit or informal | |
| 3 | left-handed, morganatic | (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank | |
| 4 | left-handed, levorotary, levorotatory | Rotating to the left | |
| 5 | left-handed | Ironically ambiguous | |
| 6 | left-handed, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed | Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands |
| Meaning | Using or intended for the left hand. |
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| Examples | "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors" |
| Contrary | right-handed; ambidextrous, two-handed |
| Similar | left, left-hand; sinistral |
| See also | sinistral; left |
| Nouns | left-handedness |
| Meaning | (of marriages) illicit or informal. |
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| Examples | "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent" |
| Similar to | illegitimate |
| Meaning | (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. |
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| Synonyms | morganatic |
| Similar to | legitimate |
| Meaning | Rotating to the left. |
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| Synonyms | levorotary, levorotatory |
| Similar to | counterclockwise, anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
| Meaning | Ironically ambiguous. |
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| Examples | "a left-handed compliment" |
| Similar to | ambiguous |
| Meaning | Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands. |
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| Synonyms | bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed |
| Similar to | maladroit |
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