left-handed
adjective
having the left hand more dominant or effective than the right; preferably using the left hand.
left-handedly
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a word derived from
left-handed.
Example Sentences
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While he cannot write script, he prints left-handedly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he noticed the crumpled note which, aimed left-handedly, had missed the waste basket earlier, when he opened his mail, and he went over and picked it up.
From The Rim of the Desert by Ada Woodruff Anderson
George Sand came, honestly, if left-handedly, by her cardiac prowess.
From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune
I shook my head and squeezed his hand imploringly, while he, holding me tight in one sinewy arm, plucked left-handedly at the knot.
From Helmet of Navarre by Bertha Runkle
"You do everything so left-handedly, Petrea!" exclaimed Sara, in ill-humour; "you are like the ass in the fable, that would break the head of his friend in driving away a fly!"
From The Home by Mary (Mary Botham) Howitt
