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adjective

Lopsided adj.

Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship.

Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; having much more on one side than the other; also used metaphorically; as, a lopsided victory.

Full of idiosyncrasies.

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Etymology of 'Lopsided'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lopsided" Quotes from Famous Books

... see the situation, and are perfectly willing to let their wages stand a while. By another week I start Hazel and Hattie delivering vegetables. Then the money will pour in from the hotels and my books won't look so lopsided. And—oh, Billy—you'd never guess. Old Gow Yum has a bank account. He came to me afterward—I guess he was thinking it over—and offered to lend me four hundred dollars. What ...

— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London

... I'm onny ugly and lopsided, and everyone laughs at me 'ceptin' you, and I've no one or—or nothin' ...

— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte

... the grin was lopsided, more like a sneering grimace. At one time the man had failed to side-step a heat ray and it had left a neat red line drawn across the right cheek, nipped the ...

— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak

... enough, albeit slightly lopsided by reason of the penny being so much the weightier, until the match, in one unlucky throw, fell close to a chair by the bed, ...

— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis

... Christian Science arose, the thought of the world's scientific leaders had become materialistically "lopsided," and this condition can never long continue. There must be a righting-up of the mind as surely as of a ship when under stress of storm it is ready to capsize. The pendulum that has swung to one extreme ...

— Pulpit and Press (6th Edition) • Mary Baker Eddy

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