Left-handed synonyms and antonyms

lĕft'hăn'dĭd

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southpaw
Left-handed
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sinistrous
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levorotary
rotating to the left
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honest (related)
Characterized by truth; not false:
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disingenuous
The definition of disingenuous is insincere, deceptive or misleading.
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sincere (antonym)
Meant truly or earnestly.
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ham-fisted
Ham-handed.
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ham-handed
Having unusually large hands.
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levorotatory
(Chemistry, of an optically active compound or crystal) That rotates the plane of polarized light to the left, or anticlockwise.
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morganatic
Designating a marriage (the wife involved) between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank, often having various legal repercussions (typically that such a wife has no claim on the husband's possessions or title). It was not an aspect of English law, but was common in other royal houses, especially in Germany.
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right-handed (related)
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lefthanded (related)
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awkward
Difficult to effect; uncomfortable:
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clumsy
Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
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gauche
Lacking grace or social polish; awkward or tactless.
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sinister
Wicked, evil, or dishonest, esp. in some dark, mysterious way
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sinistral
Having whorls that rise to the apex in clockwise spirals from the opening at the lower left
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insincere
Not sincere; not genuine:
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handless
(Dial.) Inexpert, clumsy, or awkward
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heavy-handed
Clumsy; awkward.
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butterfingered
Prone to dropping things; clumsy
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careless
The definition of careless is not paying proper attention to detail or not taking care to do something well enough or correctly.
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ambilevous
(Rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
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dubious
Feeling doubt; hesitating; skeptical
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maladroit
Marked by a lack of adroitness; inept.
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abusive
Characterized by improper or wrongful use:
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degrading
Tending or intended to degrade:
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insolent
(Archaic) Presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant.
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insulting
The act of giving insult.
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offensive
Of, relating to, or designed for attack:
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mala fide
With or in bad faith.
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bumbling
lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; ; ; ; - Mary H. Vorse
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dexterous (antonym)
Agile; flexible; able to move fluidly and gracefully.
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ambidextrous
Deceitful; double-dealing
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backhanded
Backhanded is defined as a stroke in sports that is done with the palm of the hand turned towards the body.
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Left-handed Sentence Examples

  • Leonardo appears to have been left-handed.

  • The wire is subject to two superposed magnetizations, the one longitudinal, the other circular, due to the current traversing the wire; the resultant magnetization is consequently in the direction of a screw or spiral round the wire, which will be right-handed or left-handed according as the relation between the two magnetizations is right-handed or left-handed; the magnetic expansion or contraction of the metal along the spiral lines of magnetization produces the Wiedemann twist.

  • For those orbits whose projection upon a plane perpendicular to the field is righthanded, the period of revolution will be accelerated by the field (since the electron current is negative), and the magnetic moment consequently increased; for those which are left-handed, the period will be retarded and the moment diminished.

  • If the structure of the molecule is so perfectly symmetrical that, in the absence of any external field, the resultant magnetic moment of the circulating electrons is zero, then the application of a field, by accelerating the right-handed (negative) revolutions, and retarding those which are left-handed, will induce in the substance a resultant magnetization opposite in direction to the field itself; a body composed of such symmetrical molecules is therefore diamagnetic. If however the structure of the molecule is such that the electrons revolving around its atoms do not exactly cancel one another's effects, the molecule constitutes a little magnet, which under the influence of an external field will tend to set itself with its axis parallel to the field.

  • Abubekr's successor was Mahommed III., Ahmed ibn Ibrahim el-Ghazi (1507-1543), surnamed Gran (Granye), the left-handed.

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