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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



... had brought both pleasure and pain—as most years do—pleasure in the friends she had gathered round her, Adrienne and Jerry and Bunty—even with Olga Lermontof an odd, rather one-sided friendship had sprung up, born of the circumstances which had knit their paths together—pain in the soreness which still lingered from the hurt that Errington had dealt her. Albeit, her life had been so filled with work and play, her mind so much occupied, ...
— The Splendid Folly • Margaret Pedler
... wisdom and experience. This is the honey that the learned have gathered. Kings should gather wisdom from various sources. One cannot accomplish his course through the world with the aid of a morality that is one-sided. Duty must spring from the understanding; and the practices of those that are good should always be ascertained, O son of Kuru! Attend to these words of mine. Only kings that are possessed of superior intelligence can rule, expecting ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Unknown
... overthrown States, Congress should begin with a clean slate, and make clean work of it. Let there be no hesitation. It would be a cowardly deference to a defeated and treacherous President, if any account were made of the illegitimate, one-sided, sham governments hurried into existence for a malign purpose in the absence of Congress. These pretended governments, which were never submitted to the people, and from participation in which four millions of the loyal people were excluded by Presidential ...
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue • Various
... is—a little, half-forgotten, and more than half-ruined Syrian town was the scene of one of the fiercest and most dramatic sieges recorded in military history. And rarely has there been a struggle so apparently one-sided. ...
— The Junior Classics • Various
... am glad to hear that you are going on with your book. I am sure it will be a comfort to you. I have read one book of Hudson's—"A Scientific Demonstration of a Future Life," and that is so pretentious, so unscientific, and so one-sided that I do not feel inclined to read more of the same author's work. I do not think I mentioned to you (as I thought you did not read much now) a really fine and original work, called "Psychic Philosophy, a Religion of Natural ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2) • James Marchant


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