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Subject: sinistral: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Nov. 8, 2014

sinistral \SIN-uh-struhl\ adjective 1. left-handed. 2. of, pertaining to, or on the left side; left (opposed to dextral). Quotes During our years of separation (quite painless for us both), he had changed from a poor, wiry student with animated, night-dark eyes and a beautiful, strong, sinistral handwriting into a dignified, rather corpulent gentleman… -- Vladimir Nabokov, "Ultima Thule," The New Yorker, April 7, 1973 Origin Sinistral is related to the word sinister and meant "unlucky" when it entered English in the 1400s. It was extended to mean "on the left side" in the early 1800s.

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