left-handed lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• lacking social polish "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate" "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"
• lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands "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
• ironically ambiguous "a left-handed compliment"
• rotating to the left
• (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
• (of marriages) illicit or informal "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
• using or intended for the left hand "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs" "left-handed scissors"