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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

... woman, thine hands had not been set upon her at all. So the reason for the laying on of hands is the reason for the taking off of hands, and herein is contradiction contradicted! It is the very marriage of pro with con; and no such lopsided union either, as times go, for pro is not more unlike con than man is unlike woman— yet men and women marry every day with none to say, "Oh, the pity of it!" but I and fools like me! Now wherewithal ...

— The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan - The 14 Gilbert And Sullivan Plays • William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

... bird beguiling my tried temper into smiling By the lank lopsided languor of the countenance it wore. "Though you look storm-tost, unshaven, you," I said, "have found a haven, Daw as roupy as a raven! Was it you yapped at my door? Tell me your confounded name, O bird in beak so like BALFOUR!" Quoth the ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., August 23, 1890. • Various

... 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

... Lights twinkle. Clean-looking interiors and carefully washed store windows. Roofs have been hammered back in place, stairways nailed together again. The sagging walls and lopsided cottages have taken a new lease on life. Another of the innumerable little business districts that dot the city has ...

— A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago • Ben Hecht

Words linked to "Lopsided" : skew-whiff, askew, lopsidedness, awry