left-handedness
left-handed
adverb
uk /ˌleftˈhæn.dɪd/ us /ˌleftˈhæn.dɪd/(also left-handedly)
If you do something left-handed, you do it with the left hand:
He writes left-handed.
I can't sew left-handedly.
He eats left-handed but does everything else with his right hand.
On my computer, I navigate left-handed using a touch pad instead of a mouse.
She threw the ball left-handed.

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left-handed | American Dictionary

left-handed
adjective, adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˈleftˈhæn·dɪd/
using the left hand for writing and for most other things
A thing is described as left-handed if it is done with the left hand or designed to be used by a person with the left hand:
left-handed scissors

Examples of left-handed

left-handed
If cerebral asymmetries for human vocalisation truly have the ancient lineage argued here, why should any modern humans be right-brained or left-handed?
The autocatalysis makes the lefthanded, (respectively right-handed) polymers catalyse the production of left-handed (respectively right-handed) building blocks.
For example, does the brain process righthanded gestures differently from left-handed gestures in language production?
Only one eye was tested, right eye in righthanded and left eye in left-handed subjects.
There should be a monotonically increasing function of the overall concentration of the left-handed polymers.
These wave modes have transverse circular polarization and are named 'right-handed' (upper signs) and 'left-handed' (lower signs).
In figure 1 (a) shown a left-handed trefoil knot (solid line) with the centreline of a circular is torus (dashed line) though it.
Certain arrangements can exist in distinct left-handed and right-handed versions.
Its geometry is left-handed in contrast to thioredoxins where it is right-handed.
Individual chains adopt a right-handed -helical conformation, and two parallel chains aggregate in axial register to form a left-handed coiled-coil molecule.
The left-handed patients were analysed by reversing the left-right axis in the brain.
The outer part has all of its contacts with the neighbouring subunit along the left-handed five-start helix.
Intermediate rotation can generate either right- or left-handed structures.
The packet created by a strongly asymmetric hairpin consists of an alternating sequence of rightand left-handed canes.
This preferred handedness is remarkable because the difference in binding energy between righthanded and left-handed (levorotatory) sugars is extremely tiny (relative energy difference : 10x17).
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