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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leftward

Leftward \Left"ward\ (-w[~e]rd), adv. Toward or on the left side.

Rightward and leftward rise the rocks.
--Southey.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
leftward

late 15c., from left (adj.) + -ward. Related: Leftwards.

Wiktionary
leftward

a. To or from the left. adv. To or from the left.

Usage examples of "leftward".

Another curve to leftward, past Christ Church with its bulbiform steeple.

He led a maniple leftward to make sure no gap opened between the Halogai and his own troops.

She drove back toward Blackbury Jambs, but instead of crossing the bridge into town she took the leftward way and went north along the Shadow River road.

His hard leftward eye had view of her askant, if he cared to see how she bore the trial.

He sat back and thought a space, beringed white hand toying with the end of his leftward mustachio—and joggling his jowels.

He banked leftward above the rooftops of tile and thatch, slowing and spilling air as the field came into view, closer and closer, he could see the blades of grass, and then he was down with a thump that jarred every cartilage from his ankle joints to the top of his spine and running, running faster than he'd ever run before, sprinting up the slope as fast as a man running full pelt down it to take off, the glider still flying at shoulder height and no weight at all, and then he could slow and finally stop.

There was a tiny wriggle to it, a random nonrepetitive Seder of little hiccups and these moved steadily leftward.

Again there is a shift to the right with a rightward tilt and to the left with a leftward tilt.

Rhiow glanced up leftward, a little over her shoulder, to see the light-accented, graceful curves of the Chrysler Building rearing up shinning into the evening sky, the city-light gilding it from underneath.