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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

... village, but it called itself a city. The last he had seen of it was the "depot," a wooden shed surrounded by a waste of rutted snow, and backed by grimy coal yards. He could see the broken shades of the town's one hotel, which faced the tracks, drooping across their dirty windows, and the lopsided sign which proclaimed from the porch roof in faded gilt on black the name of "C. E. Trench, Prop." He could see the swing-doors of the bar, and hear the click of balls from the poolroom advertising the second of the town's distractions. He could smell the ...

— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

... boom swinging to and fro till the mast groaned aloud under the strain. Now and again, too, there would come a cloud of light sprays over the bulwark, and a heavy blow of the ship's bows against the swell: so much heavier weather was made of it by this great rigged ship than by my home-made, lopsided coracle, now gone to the bottom ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester

... height they assure us exceed Mont Blanc. But M. Gussew, of the Imperial Observatory at Wilna, describes to us, "a mountain mass in the form of a meniscus lens, rising in the middle to a height of seventy-nine English miles."[338] As this makes the moon lopsided, with the heavy side toward the earth, the question of an atmosphere, and of the moon's inhabitability is reopened; and the discussion seems to favor the man in the moon; only he keeps on the other side always, so that ...

— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson

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