Lopsided
adjective
Not evenly balanced, heavier or larger on one side.
He won the game with a lopsided score of 10-1.
Often appears as...
- lopsided grin
- lopsided score
adjective
Not fair or equal.
The trade agreement was lopsided, benefiting only one country.
Often appears as...
- lopsided agreement
- lopsided relationship
adjective
Slightly crooked or off to one side.
Her hat sat lopsided on her head.
Often appears as...
- lopsided smile
- lopsided hat
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Not evenly balanced, heavier or larger on one side.
He won the game with a lopsided score of 10-1.
Often appears as...
- lopsided grin
- lopsided score
adjective
Not fair or equal.
The trade agreement was lopsided, benefiting only one country.
Often appears as...
- lopsided agreement
- lopsided relationship
adjective
Slightly crooked or off to one side.
Her hat sat lopsided on her head.
Often appears as...
- lopsided smile
- lopsided hat
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imbalance
Think of visible weight difference in objects or outcomes that appear clearly uneven.
After the kids divided the cake, one side was noticeably larger, looking quite lopsided.
Pro Tip 2/3Sporting Outcomes
Used when describing matches where one team wins by a significant margin, suggesting lack of competition.
Their team dominated the finals, leading to a lopsided victory.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Symmetrical
Apply it when one side doesn't mirror the other, reflecting physical disproportion.
She added a lopsided tower to her clay sculpture, which gave it a unique charm.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imbalance
Think of visible weight difference in objects or outcomes that appear clearly uneven.
After the kids divided the cake, one side was noticeably larger, looking quite lopsided.
Pro Tip 2/3Sporting Outcomes
Used when describing matches where one team wins by a significant margin, suggesting lack of competition.
Their team dominated the finals, leading to a lopsided victory.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Symmetrical
Apply it when one side doesn't mirror the other, reflecting physical disproportion.
She added a lopsided tower to her clay sculpture, which gave it a unique charm.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imbalance
Think of visible weight difference in objects or outcomes that appear clearly uneven.
After the kids divided the cake, one side was noticeably larger, looking quite lopsided.
Pro Tip 2/3Sporting Outcomes
Used when describing matches where one team wins by a significant margin, suggesting lack of competition.
Their team dominated the finals, leading to a lopsided victory.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Symmetrical
Apply it when one side doesn't mirror the other, reflecting physical disproportion.
She added a lopsided tower to her clay sculpture, which gave it a unique charm.
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Inside the Gas Planet PIPE...
lopsided magnetic field flutters into life if you could see down to the surface of the Dynamo core where the field is generated what you might see parcels of fluid moving about and it's it they're generally so conductive that
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What's the fastest way...
All in all, this method known as QuickSort could sort the books in under three and a half hours. But there's a catch. Your partitions could end up lopsided, saving no time at all. Luckily, this rarely happens.
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How we can teach...
And this is what makes life really interesting. But this is also what makes working on intelligent technology extremely difficult. And right now, AI research, well, it's a bit lopsided on the tech side.
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Inside the Gas Planet PIPE...
lopsided magnetic field flutters into life if you could see down to the surface of the Dynamo core where the field is generated what you might see parcels of fluid moving about and it's it they're generally so conductive that
Video examples
What's the fastest way...
All in all, this method known as QuickSort could sort the books in under three and a half hours. But there's a catch. Your partitions could end up lopsided, saving no time at all. Luckily, this rarely happens.
Video examples
How we can teach...
And this is what makes life really interesting. But this is also what makes working on intelligent technology extremely difficult. And right now, AI research, well, it's a bit lopsided on the tech side.
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Quote examples
Hailey Gates
American Journalist
My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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Brian Banks
American Athlete
When we look at our justice system, we have this image of a balancing scale: truth and justice, right and wrong. But for years, our system has been lopsided, where it's not about truth and justice or balance. It's about being tough on crime, and sometimes that means you're putting the wrong person behind bars.
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Jenna Wortham
American Journalist
The Internet has become the go-to place to toss out ideas in the hope that they could lead to a job, but it has also become the place where people go to find the best ideas, creating a lopsided dynamic that tends to benefit people in power.
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Natalie Dormer
English Actress
I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.
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Fabrizio Moreira
Ecuadorian Politician
In most countries, a lopsided election represents a mandate that the winning party could then use to implement their agenda, but the U.S. political system seems to have been made to prevent such an occurrence.
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Ray Guy
American Athlete
I always had this feeling when writing about all politics... that when it's so lopsided, that if a newspaper or news organization has any weight whatsoever, it should automatically go to the other side.
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Richard Shelby
American Politician
A lot of people believe, and I do at times, that some of our trade agreements are lopsided, and we've got to look at them. But that doesn't mean that we're going to put a tariff on everything.
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Donna Brazile
American Politician
Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policies helped produce massive income inequality by lopsided breaks for the super wealthy.
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Suzanne Fields
American Journalist
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
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Marian Keyes
Irish Writer
I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice.
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Hailey Gates
American Journalist
My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
Quote examples
Brian Banks
American Athlete
When we look at our justice system, we have this image of a balancing scale: truth and justice, right and wrong. But for years, our system has been lopsided, where it's not about truth and justice or balance. It's about being tough on crime, and sometimes that means you're putting the wrong person behind bars.
Quote examples
Jenna Wortham
American Journalist
The Internet has become the go-to place to toss out ideas in the hope that they could lead to a job, but it has also become the place where people go to find the best ideas, creating a lopsided dynamic that tends to benefit people in power.
Quote examples
Natalie Dormer
English Actress
I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.
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Fabrizio Moreira
Ecuadorian Politician
In most countries, a lopsided election represents a mandate that the winning party could then use to implement their agenda, but the U.S. political system seems to have been made to prevent such an occurrence.
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Ray Guy
American Athlete
I always had this feeling when writing about all politics... that when it's so lopsided, that if a newspaper or news organization has any weight whatsoever, it should automatically go to the other side.
Quote examples
Richard Shelby
American Politician
A lot of people believe, and I do at times, that some of our trade agreements are lopsided, and we've got to look at them. But that doesn't mean that we're going to put a tariff on everything.
Quote examples
Donna Brazile
American Politician
Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policies helped produce massive income inequality by lopsided breaks for the super wealthy.
Quote examples
Suzanne Fields
American Journalist
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
Quote examples
Marian Keyes
Irish Writer
I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice.
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