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lefthanded

lefthanded is the alternative spelling of left-handed.

Meaning of left-handed

Adjective

left-handed (not comparable)

  1. Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
  2. Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand.
  3. Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise.
  4. Awkward or maladroit.
  5. Insincere or malicious.
    • The commendations of this people are not always […]left-handed and detractive.1824, Walter Savage Landor, “Aeschines and Phocion”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC
  6. Performed with the intention of doing harm or in transgression against convention or taboo; following the left-hand path
    • On the other hand, nearly all magic tends in time to the left-handed path; as being a devious means of attaining desires unobtainable by ordinary methods.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 23

See all 8 meanings of left-handed

Origin of lefthanded

From left + handed.

Questions about lefthanded

What is lefthanded the alternative spelling of?
Lefthanded is the alternative spelling of left-handed.

Words near lefthanded in the dictionary

  1. leftest
  2. leftfield
  3. leftfielder
  4. leftfielders
  5. lefthand
  6. lefthanded
  7. lefthandedly
  8. lefthandedness
  9. lefthander
  10. lefthanders
  11. leftie

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