sinistral

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If the block on the opposing side of the fault moves left relative to the observer’s block, this is called sinistral motion.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

An example of a sinistral, left-lateral strike-slip fault is the Dead Sea fault in Jordan and Israel.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

In his trademark Muppet-huffing-helium timbre, Q-Tip spits, “This time we’re going left and not right,” a sinistral declaration of artistic and political principle — a refusal to play it safe.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2016

At the beginning of the last decade it was not uncommon for Harte to be praised as a sinistral David Beckham.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2012

On the outer surface this bowl has a row of tadpoles encircling it in a sinistral direction, or with the center of the bowl on the left.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter