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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



... they are writing hymns, have fallen now-a- days into a habit of writing of the Holy Spirit of God, in a tone of which I dare not say that it is wrong or untrue; but of which I must say, that it is one-sided. And if there are two sides to a matter, it must do us harm to look at only one of them. And I think that it does people harm to hear the Holy Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, spoken of ...
— All Saints' Day and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley
... old figure, stooped and so one-sided that the tail of the long and shabby coat he wore dragged on the ground. The face was black and shrewd, and little patches of snow-white hair fringed the ...
— The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... partial and one-sided. I think the charge of gambling may be put aside, with your promise to abstain from the appearance of evil for the future. I understand your position about the Sabbath. You should have gone on singing in some church. Supposing you got no spiritual help from it, ...
— An Orkney Maid • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... proportionate, which does not develop all the faculties belonging to our nature. If a great increase of wealth in a country takes place, and with that increase of wealth a powerful stimulus to the invention of mere luxury, that, if it stands alone, is not, never can be, progress. It is only that one-sided development which is but one side of deformity. I hope we shall have no one-sided development. One mode of avoiding it is to teach the doctrine of that sisterhood you have asserted to-day, and confident I am that the good wishes you have exprest on behalf ...
— Model Speeches for Practise • Grenville Kleiser
... Starr eyed the tan boot toes. They moved impatiently, but they did not uncross. Starr smiled to himself and proceeded to carry on a one-sided conversation with Pat, and to ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower


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