left-handed
AdjektivSubstantivin Dialogen belegt
- Kanada//lɛftˈhændɪd//
Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
Adjektiv
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Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
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Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand.
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Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise.
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Awkward or maladroit.
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Insincere or malicious.
The commendations of this people are not always […]left-handed and detractive.
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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.
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Of a coordinate system: not following the right-hand rule.
Herkunft
From Middle English left handyd, lyfthonded, equivalent to left + handed.
Substantiv
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Left-handed people, taken as a whole.
Evidence contradicting this principle came from a study of epileptic patients by Penfield and Roberts (1959) who found that dysphasia following surgery on the right hemisphere was not significantly more frequent in the left-handed than in the right-handed.
left-handed · Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
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