French-English translations for gauche

left
uk
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California is turning dramatically left. La Californie aborde un fort virage à gauche. (Loud and sustained applause from the left and centre left) (Applaudissements vifs et prolongés à gauche et au centre-gauche) (Applause from the centre left) (Applaudissements du centre-gauche)
left-wingThe truth cannot be right-wing or left-wing. La vérité ne peut être ni de gauche ni de droite. Chemistry is neither left-wing nor right-wing. La chimie n’est ni de gauche ni de droite. I find that a good left-wing stance. Je trouve que c'est de la bonne gauche.

awkward
us
John was awkward at performing the trick. Hell have to practice to improveThat was an extremely awkward moment. Everyone was watchingAn awkward silence had fallen
bent
us
He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.They were bent on mischief.That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
buckled
clumsy
us
Hes very clumsy. I wouldnt trust him with carrying the dishes.It is a clumsy solution, but it might work for now.What a clumsy joke...
curved
gauche
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infelicitous
left left-wing sinister
left wingBy so doing, they scored points with the left wing. Par cette promesse, ils ont marqué des points à gauche.
left-handThis decision is based on an interpretation of what is written there by the staff sitting on your left-hand side. Cette décision repose sur une interprétation du texte par le personnel assis à votre gauche. To compound the situation, many of them were in left-hand-drive cars which they had brought from their own homes in Eastern Europe. Pour aggraver la situation, bon nombre d’entre eux étaient à bord de véhicules dont le volant est situé à gauche, qu’ils ont emmenés avec eux d’Europe orientale. Globalisation does not appear in the end to be the sort of divisive factor that the left-hand side of this Chamber believes it to be. La mondialisation n’apparaît finalement pas comme ce facteur de discorde clamé par l’aile gauche de cette Assemblée.
skew
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A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the resultsa skew arch
warpeda warped sense of humour