left-handed

adjective

Pronunciation: /lɛftˈhændɪd/

Etymology: From Middle English left handyd, lyfthonded, equivalent to left + handed.

Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand.
Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise.
Awkward or maladroit.
Insincere or malicious.
“The commendations of this people are not always […]left-handed and detractive.”
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.”
Of a coordinate system: not following the right-hand rule.

Etymology: From Middle English left handyd, lyfthonded, equivalent to left + handed.

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.”