Main entry: left-handed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered
Definition: lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
Usage: 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
Main entry: left-handed
Definition: ironically ambiguous
Usage: a left-handed compliment
Main entry: left-handed, levorotary, levorotatory
Definition: rotating to the left
Main entry: left-handed, morganatic
Definition: (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
Main entry: left-handed
Definition: (of marriages) illicit or informal
Usage: in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent
Main entry: left-handed
Definition: using or intended for the left hand
Usage: left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs; left-handed scissors