Left-handed - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˌleftˈhandəd|  American pronunciation of the word left-handed
Brit.  |leftˈhandɪd|  British pronunciation of the word left-handed

adjective

- (of marriages) illicit or informal
in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent
- (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 (syn: morganatic)
- rotating to the left
- ironically ambiguous
a left-handed compliment
- lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands (syn: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, handless, heavy-handed)
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