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Lopsided   Listen
adjective
Lopsided  adj.  
1.
Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship.
2.
Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; having much more on one side than the other; also used metaphorically; as, a lopsided victory.
3.
Full of idiosyncrasies.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Lopsided" Quotes from Famous Books



... onny ugly and lopsided, and everyone laughs at me 'ceptin' you, and I've no one or—or ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte
... Chinamen begin. 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 fought its ...
— A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago • Ben Hecht
... yes, and then we asked him to drink old Clausewitz's health, as a brother-tactician, in milk-punch and Worcester sauce, and so on. We had to help him a little there. He bites. There wasn't much else that time; but, you know, the War Office is severe on ragging these days.' Bobby stopped with a lopsided smile. ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling
... that profane culte de laideur, that 'love of the lopsided,' they have recovered from the foul receptacles ...
— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade
... Asteroid 57GM. This place didn't have 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
... noticed that attraction is no lopsided affair; that it is mutual; that, while the larger body attracts the less, the less also attracts and moves the larger in proportion; and that, indeed, every body and every particle attracts every other, far as well as near, to the utmost ...
— Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects • John Sutherland Sinclair, Earl of Caithness
... this time in its full lopsided monstrosity, and turned to Dick, clutching him and hiding her eyes ...
— Ambrotox and Limping Dick • Oliver Fleming


Words linked to "Lopsided" :   lopsidedness, asymmetrical, awry, askew


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