sinistral
Day 29Level 2SIN-uh-struhl
left-handed
left-handed (or counterclockwise)
Part of Speech: adjective
Antonyms:
right-handed
Example Sentence:
That's great for attacking snails with clockwise dextral shells, but less so for those with anti-clockwise sinistral ones.
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