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/lˈɑpsˈaɪdɪd/ Listen

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lopsided" Quotes from Famous Books

... such uninspiring needs as more books or professors' pay. The result of giving without first considering the needs of the benefited college or university, was that every gift made the beneficiary more lopsided. Certain universities were almost capsized by their incidental architecture. Others were subsidizing graduate students to whom the conditions of successful research were denied. Still others were calling great ...

— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various

... swooped down upon the guard. He was stuffing the large German lady into a small, lopsided carriage, the driver of which was taking off his cap and putting it on again after the manner ...

— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon

... 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 end ...

— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak

... anything excepting a lonely shack with paper-thin walls made of special heat-insulating material. There wasn't a blade of grass; not a puff of wind; no soil for violets; not even a symmetrical shape, it was lopsided like a beaten-up baseball. Or at least that was what I thought until something happened to ...

— The Minus Woman • Russell Robert Winterbotham

... similar insect, but his "face" was drawn out to a considerable length, and the brain hypertrophy being in different regions, his head was not round but pear-shaped, with the stalk downward. There were also litter-carriers, lopsided beings, with enormous shoulders, very spidery ushers, and a squat ...

— The First Men In The Moon • H. G. Wells

... was borne in upon me what a mutilated Christianity that is which practically takes no account of Mary. This fragmentary, lopsided faith was that in which I myself had been brought up, and which to-day still is the faith of the majority of my fellow-countrymen. The Mother of God—the Second Eve, the Immaculate Maiden Mother, who, as if to balance Eve at the Tree of Death, stood by the Tree of Life—in popular ...

— Lourdes • Robert Hugh Benson

... this state one of his ribs was extracted for a purpose we shall presently refer to, and which he discovered when he awoke. This curious surgical operation involves a dilemma. If Adam was upright after it, he must have been lopsided before; if he was upright before it, he must have been lopsided after. In either case the poor ...

— Bible Romances - First Series • George W. Foote

... the land lies so...." Hilario Trinfan's crooked body pulled together in a lopsided perch as he squatted range fashion beside the morning campfire. He had smoothed a space of ground the width of his two hands and was setting out twigs and stones to create a miniature relief map of the countryside. "Here is the water hole to which the Pinto ...

— Rebel Spurs • Andre Norton