Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: one-sided
IPA transcription: [w,ʌns'aɪdəd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: unilateral, one-sided
    Meaning: involving only one part or side; "unilateral paralysis"; "a unilateral decision"
  • Synonyms: biased, colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted
    Meaning: favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant"
  • Synonyms: nonreversible, one-sided
    Meaning: not reversible or capable of having either side out
Usage examples
  • There is no such thing as over-intellectuality, but there is such a thing as a one-sided intellectuality.
  • Compare what was said in an earlier chapter about the one-sided meanings which have come to attach to the ideas of efficiency and of culture.
  • When, however, we give up this one-sided ethical estimate, we shall surely be able to find a more accurate formula for the relationship of the evil to the good in human nature.
  • But all of these editorial suggestions appear to be conducted by professionals for the benefit of the layman, which seems to me to be a rather one-sided way of going about the thing.
  • Affection between them even when Ellen was a child had been quite one-sided; for Ellen had always been a selfish, spoiled little thing, and Julia had looked in vain for any signs of tenderness.
  • No, no, my venerable friend, that was all excellent acting about my extraordinary delusions, and the rest of it, but I am not going to be carried so far by them as to adhere to such an outrageously one-sided bargain."
  • Naturally Laploshka had a large circle of acquaintances, and as he exercised some care in their selection it followed that an appreciable proportion were men whose bank balances enabled them to acquiesce indulgently in his rather one-sided views on hospitality.