sinistral

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

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

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

This is carried outward in a sinistral spiral to the noded shoulder.

From Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 by Holmes, William Henry