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According to WordNet, the adjective "left-handed" has 6 sense(s).

300442255 rotating to the left.

300103196 ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment".

301408240 (of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent".

300063563 lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse.

301406961 (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.

302029167 using or intended for the left hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors".


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