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词汇 lopsided
释义 lopsided
adjective
uk /ˌlɒpˈsaɪ.dɪd/ us /ˌlɑːpˈsaɪ.dɪd/
with one side bigger, higher, etc. than the other:
He had a charming, lopsided grin.
The desk was scratched and lopsided; a thick book had been wedged underneath its short leg.
Synonyms
askew
skew-whiffUKinformal
Opposites
level(FLAT)
straight(NOT CURVING)
Related word
lopsidedness
not equally balanced in amount, importance, etc.:
The lopsided vote demonstrates how isolated the minister has become.
The comparison is not as lopsided as it seems at first.
Related word
lopsidedness
She walked into the room carrying an enormous lopsided cake.
She had pink cheeks and her hat was a bit lopsided.
The lopsided scores were a result of a talented team playing in a weak league.
The court found fraud in the extremely lopsided division of marital property, and voided the transfer.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Slanting, sloping, leaning, tilting
acclivity
angled
anteversion
anteverted
askew
gentleness
inclination
incline
lean
lopsidedly
lopsidedness
oblique
obliquely
rake
skew-whiff
slant
slanting
slantingly
slantwise
steep

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Balance and imbalance

lopsided | American Dictionary


lopsided
adjective
us/ˈlɑpˈsɑɪ·dɪd/
with one side or part much bigger or higher than the other; uneven:
The Yankees won by the lopsided score of 17 to 2.

Examples of lopsided


lopsided
Exceedingly lopsided distributions of resources can bring dissatisfaction, revolt or ethnic strife.
The purely strategic outcome is even more lopsided and skewed than the purely sincere one.
The west, on the other hand, was up for grabs, and the northern vote was too fragmented to produce a lopsided outcome.
Like the now outdated intromission ideas about vision, the impression of external laws into our visual system appears lopsided.
This lopsided evidence has not been a concern for any of the earlier accounts.
Contemporary demographic data illustrate the lopsided distribution of theistic belief.
The point of its draft system is to ensure that talent is not all siphoned off by a few teams, making competition between the teams lopsided.
Thus, the regional political leaders (the clients) can easily be convinced that they are given equal treatment or that there is an absence of lopsided distribution.
The use of just this phrase to close the piece results in a fairly lopsided structure, with a sense of rushing to tonic closure, rather than a full binary form.
The values for skewness and kurtosis show clearly that the distribution is both most lopsided and most concentrated around the middle in 1935, as was expected.
Kosygin could have explained this lopsided distribution in any number of ways.
We don't teach them about the first and third stages; instead, we put too much emphasis on the second stage and thus make them intellectually lopsided.
It is seemingly widely accepted that partnership is an admirable initiative moving us on from lopsided power arrangements between health care providers and recipients of that health care.
Tea fruits with four locules usually have one or two aborted ovules and are hence lopsided (data not shown).
I am consoled by having access to quantities of music which was composed in an era when these lopsided artistic values did not obtain.
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