gauches

Avoir deux mains gauches: "To have two left hands"

Expressions 2004

Angleterre, de voir les modérés de nuances diverses se rapprocher, pour former un véritable parti conservateur: chez vous, anciens whigs et anciens tories; chez nous, les centres droits et les centres gauches.

Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. John Knox Laughton 1872

It was, doubtless, the exclusive contemplation of these features, which brought upon these laws the sweeping condemnation of Montesquieu, as "puériles, gauches, idiotes, -- frivoles dans le fond et gigantesques dans le style."

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 William Hickling Prescott 1827

The two extremes were regular cotes gauches and cotes droits.

Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief James Fenimore Cooper 1820