Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sinistrad; in a sinistral direction; to or toward the left; from right to left.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Toward the left; in a sinistral manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Toward the
left ; in asinistral manner.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
sinistral + -ly
Examples
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As a bonus for us sinistrally-inclined, it is available in left hand.
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Dr. Fewkes's careful and valuable researches among the Moki Indians of Arizona, however, show without doubt that they in their religious rites make the circuits sinistrally, _i. e._, contrary to the apparent course of the sun, or, as physicists say, contra-clockwise.
Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk
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