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One-sided   /wən-sˈaɪdəd/   Listen
adjective
One-sided  adj.  
1.
Having one side only, or one side prominent.
2.
Hence: Limited to one side; favoring one person or side over another; partial; unjust; unfair; as, a one-sided view or statement. "Unguarded and one-sided language."
Synonyms: biased, colored, slanted.
3.
Having one team or party greatly superior; strongly favoring only one side; uneven; imbalanced; unequal; as, a one-sided contest; of contests, generally.
4.
(Bot.) Growing on one side of a stem; as, one-sided flowers.
5.
Using only one side, or having only one side usable; as, one-sided printing; one-sided film; used mostly of sheets of material used for printing or imaging.
6.
Performed by only one party or side; of actions directly affecting more than one party. Opposite of multilateral.
Synonyms: unilateral (vs. bilateral).
7.
Out of proportion in shape.
Synonyms: ill-proportioned, lopsided.
8.
Not reversible or capable of having either side out; of cloth fabrics or clothing. Opposite of reversible.
Synonyms: nonreversible.





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"One-sided" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the wall which shut the Jews in, shut the Christians out. The contempt of the Christian for the Jew is fully reciprocated. One-sided hate does not endure any more than ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen • Elbert Hubbard
... quality of talkability is to be distinguished, very strictly and inflexibly, from the bad quality which imitates it and often brings it into discredit. I mean the vice of talkativeness. That is a selfish, one-sided, inharmonious affair, full of discomfort, and productive ...
— Fisherman's Luck • Henry van Dyke
... oranges wildly at one another's heads, and generally enjoyed ourselves. It was all very silly and irrational, no doubt, but it was life, it was reality; while the pretended earnestness of those pallid Somerville girls is all an affectation of one-sided culture." ...
— The Woman Who Did • Grant Allen
... what the subjects taught ought to be, and what are the shells and what the kernels of knowledge. He shows clearly that woman will ultimately be the regenerator of humanity, that education so far has been merely fractional and one-sided—that true development consists in the co-education of soul and body, the co-education of man and woman, the co-education of the material and ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, July 1887 - Volume 1, Number 6 • Various
... facilities for acquiring money. It is surprising how totally such a mind becomes unfitted to enjoy and admire any great or noble quality in the abstract; in spite of a quick wit and keen organs, such men become the most one-sided beings, perhaps, in the whole human family. To moral beauty Mr. Taylor seemed quite blind; his mental vision resembled the physical sight of those individuals whose eyes, though perfect in every other respect, are incapable of receiving any ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper


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