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Definition of one-sided in English: one-sidedadjective wʌnˈsʌɪdɪdˈwən ˈˌsaɪdɪd 1Unfairly giving or dealing with only one side of a contentious issue; biased. one-sided agitprop that devalues the causes it promotes Example sentencesExamples - I am bitterly concerned with this one-sided, biased, anti-Israel report.
- How dare they spend a day focusing on such one-sided issues and call it education.
- But I think it is a serious mistake because it merely encourages the worse kind of one-sided, unfair attacks.
- Since I have so often criticized Mirror writers for one-sided, unfair or patently wrong items on Israel and its supporters, let me acknowledge the opposite for a change.
- A democracy encourages free press that provides both sides of the issue, not a one-sided Party mouthpiece, which the press has become.
- Obviously, information would be one-sided and biased.
- He seems to find the media portrayal of him unfair, at least one-sided.
- Academe is at it again, allowing a one-sided, biased article on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
- I see your compliance to publishing this man's diary as completely inappropriate, not to say shamefully one-sided and deeply biased.
- They abandoned their former biased one-sided view which is of course an encouraging sign.
- Mountain said his views on this issue are not one-sided.
- I must, however, take issue with his very one-sided comments directed at club professionals.
- An egotistic, biased and one-sided approach in Washington cannot yield lasting peace.
- Few political issues get more one-sided media treatment than ‘free trade.’
- This is going to be the most biased, one-sided, totally untrustworthy book review you'll ever read.
- I mean, I've never seen a political issue that is so one-sided among the public and that politicians are simply ignoring.
- The information that's in there isn't biased or one-sided.
- She said, as chairman of Bord Bia, she was very afraid that the consumer was taking a one-sided view on the issue.
- The topic is fuelled by the often negative press that bullying gets in the Press, often the local press which highlights the problem and over-hypes the issues with one-sided articles.
- But I object to that becoming a very one-sided issue.
Synonyms biased, prejudiced, partisan, partial, preferential, discriminatory, coloured, inequitable, unfair, influenced, slanted, unjust, narrow-minded, bigoted - 1.1 (of a contest or conflict) having a marked inequality of strength or ability between the participants.
a totally one-sided match had a deceptively close scoreline it was a one-sided battle Example sentencesExamples - The contest was somewhat one-sided, with the visiting Englishmen winning without much difficulty.
- Although the result suggests a one-sided contest, that was far from what happened and the performance has encouraged county officials.
- The 31-year-old Sydney Olympic gold medallist wasted little time in the ring and won the one-sided contest in two minutes and nine seconds for his eighth professional win.
- The winners were in total control from the word go in a totally one-sided contest.
- A repeat never looked on the cards as Leigh scored at almost a point a minute in a one-sided contest.
- This was a one-sided contest which ended on a final scoreline of Scartaglin 2-12, Listowel Emmets - 3.
- The one-sided contest, which India needed to win to keep alive their hopes for a berth in the final, saw Pakistan scoring three goals in each halves.
- And every half-footballer in the country wants to tog out for the media to make his or her name in a one-sided contest.
- The election for the prime minister's office was a one-sided contest that was never in doubt.
- Australia's match against Bangladesh should be a one-sided contest with attention focused on the match against England in Bristol on Sunday.
- Tens of thousands attended rallies to express their revulsion at the one-sided conflict and the slaughter of thousands of Iraqis.
- Oozing confidence from the outset, the Jarlaths' boys were rampant in the first 25 minutes of an exceedingly one-sided contest.
- In particular their kicking was superb as they humbled the Saints in a one-sided contest which saw the equal highest winning margin in the competition's history.
- In a one-sided contest, the Kiev-born Scot blew the British No.3 off court 6-2, 6-1.
- Inevitably, during a lull in what turned out to be a rather one-sided contest, the assembled spectators created their own entertainment.
- He did it in sensational style as he stopped the man ranked fifth in the world after just 97 seconds of a one-sided contest.
- This was a one-sided contest, with Thistle's threat virtually constant.
- The fight was stopped in round eleven in a very one-sided contest.
- We'd all better tune in; this could be the most one-sided contest since the Little Big Horn.
- The format of the ICC Champions Trophy, the second-biggest one-day tournament in world cricket, has been tweaked to ensure fewer one-sided contests.
Synonyms unequal, uneven, unbalanced, lopsided - 1.2 (of a relationship or conversation) having all the effort coming from one participant.
a one-sided caring relationship denies the essential element of reciprocity Example sentencesExamples - The paper has never published details of these one-sided conversations for fear of legal reprisals.
- They sat down on a couch, catching up on recent events, although the conversation was rather one-sided, and the exhausted pair eventually fell asleep.
- So Cordelia realized how pointless their long one-sided conversations were, Kerowyn thought with the slightest air of smugness.
- Anyone who has known the joy of an animal in the house knows that it is not a one-sided relationship.
- On one occasion he saw the captain approaching the radio room so he picked up the phone and began a one-sided conversation.
- In time, this paid off and the one-sided conversation with New Zealand began.
- I feel guilty that Gwen and I have such a one-sided relationship.
- Laura normally just stood there and sighed while listening to the one-sided conversation (since she can't hear Wolf).
- Derrick shrugged, remembering the look on her face when she caught him and the horse involved in the one-sided conversation.
- That's why I halted the one-sided conversations long ago.
- It's not a one-sided conversation where I continually whine about how much wearing pink sucks or something, but he really contributes.
- The one-sided conversation ended when they had to get ready for supper and Kathryn ended it by saying that Stephanie was already the best friend she has ever had.
- I could always hear him holding one-sided conversations.
- A lot of these conversations are unfortunately one-sided.
- As I dunked the teabag into and out of the boiling water a couple of times, I couldn't help but overhear the strains of a one-sided conversation that drifted into the room.
- Not all one-sided relationships are unhealthy.
- It teaches us that conversations are one-sided and that disagreements do not involve compromise or discussion.
- After the one-sided conversation was concluded Winthrop had his personal shame and sorrow to contend with, and the unshaven grin of the grizzly wino who asked for money.
- Before he could continue his one-sided conversation, someone interrupted.
- Still, though, I wasn't enjoying this one-sided conversation.
2Having or occurring on one side of something only. Example sentencesExamples - Therefore, when the double-sided or one-sided copy is made from the double-sided original document, the finished copy can be obtained without a reversed even page
- He went to the 5th District Court of Appeals and said, These cannot be released because they are one-sided documents.
- You may get into the situation where you need to create a one-sided document in profit center accounting.
Derivatives adverb The film is gripping and emotionally wrenching, but it focuses one-sidedly on the suffering and death of Jesus and hardly deals with the Resurrection. Example sentencesExamples - Almost any plan would have been one-sidedly successful.
- That anarchists are a rare species that some think should be extinct on college campuses corresponds to the popular conservative view that higher education is one-sidedly leftist and desperately needs righting.
- But few specialists who study the Arab-Israeli conflict see the matter as one-sidedly as Pipes does.
- It is based on a one-sidedly negative account of modern agriculture, scientific and technological experimentation and the track record of big business and government.
- Isn't it more likely that the transatlantic dialogue didn't take place because the Germans were betting too one-sidedly, first on the French and later on the Russians?
- They one-sidedly give orders or directions without listening to ordinary people.
- It is disappointing to say the least that in a book which purports to meet the challenge of interpreting the Dharma for the modern west, the meeting of the two streams is so one-sidedly against the Dharma.
- But what if consumer culture's advertising system is not magical but religious - by which I mean, in part, more ambiguous and less one-sidedly manipulative?
- In relation to the spirit of the 1995 memorandum, the mayor's actions have not supported harm reduction measures in the field of synthetic drugs, but have one-sidedly focused on repression.
- This method of one-sidedly and ahistorically picking and choosing facts to fit a pre-determined political conclusion is as unscientific as it is intellectually bankrupt.
- It is a result of one-sidedly highlighting only bad news.
- But a problem is still that intercourse debut often is one-sidedly conceptualized within a framework of poor resources and psychosocial problems, usually as a ‘problem behavior.’
- I wouldn't describe it so one-sidedly, darling.
- Thus, he looked separately at the frequency with which individual workers made such swaps and at how one-sidedly generous they were.
- These people should not be blamed so one-sidedly.
- This example also illustrates well the interplay between experiment and theory, which Riordan seems to see rather one-sidedly.
- Since the letters you see free to print are so flagrantly and one-sidedly selective (‘self-serving’ is, I believe the expression), I doubt this will find its way into those columns; we shall see.
- Moreover, the one-sidedly romantic approach discounts the degree to which stability and support through the mundane challenges of life can be existentially attractive.
- Where does it differ from the Greek communities which Hegel regarded as lacking the essential principle of human freedom brought forward in the Reformation and captured, if one-sidedly, in Kant's notion of duty?
noun ˌwʌnˈsʌɪdɪdnəs The writer, an official reassigned in the UN administration from the Dutch colonial administration, complains of the one-sidedness of the UN administration who ignored such aspirations of the people. Example sentencesExamples - I wasn't naïve: I knew what musicians were like and the transiency and one-sidedness of relationships they trailed behind them.
- Though the study just described did not involve political or moral issues, the results show that one-sidedness, and consequently extremeness, can be heightened when people are communicating over the Internet.
- We bring up this last point because it seems sometimes that this… er, one-sidedness, applies to your network as well as yourself.
- But the truce's one-sidedness did not diminish the shock, and not only among Israelis who long ago again started clubbing in Tel Aviv and dining in West Jerusalem.
- Extreme one-sidedness, they argue, pollutes and diminishes.
- His lack of respect for those who were excluded, whether socially, politically or artistically, from the Revolution, renders his account suspect in its one-sidedness.
- It's hard to turn corners in a stretch limo, so we went the long route into town, enjoying the smoked-glass one-sidedness of seeing all.
- However, Australian democracy - if it is to avoid becoming moribund through one-sidedness - needs a genuine competition at the Federal level.
- So you don't put your one-sidedness, your bias or conditionality, into it.
- Second, as can happen with the forceful statement of any thesis, Oz's argument is subject to a certain one-sidedness, as illustrated by this.
- I don't expect any of this to happen, of course, but I like to fantasize about the problems that could be solved simply by eliminating the one-sidedness of most consumer contracts.
- The sheer one-sidedness of the treatment of the Chancellor may go down very well with readers of The Daily Mail or The Daily Telegraph but it fails to answer almost all of the questions and concerns that were raised at the start of this review.
- The evidence is mounting that there is an ideological one-sidedness to university campuses today.
- Apart from recent examples of one-sidedness, seeing a photo of him last year sitting under a flag of the Middle East on which Israel had been eliminated, I do wonder.
- Some traditional rabbis and religious pundits have taken issue with what they see as the film's one-sidedness.
- But in a recent panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute, two experts warned that academic one-sidedness matters very much indeed, and is clearly having harmful results.
- That reservoir of opinions, attitudes and slants lifts our tolerance for one-sidedness into an appetite for edifying entertainment.
- Subsequent writings exposed the one-sidedness of most American mass-media coverage of the area and its conflicts.
- The result of this one-sidedness is exchanges like this wrap-up exchange at the end of her interview yesterday on WPHT radio in Philadelphia.
Rhymes lopsided, misguided, undecided, undivided, unguided, unprovided Definition of one-sided in US English: one-sidedadjectiveˈwən ˈˌsīdidˈwən ˈˌsaɪdɪd 1Unfairly giving or dealing with only one side of a contentious issue or question; biased or partial. the press was accused of being one-sided, of not giving a balanced picture Example sentencesExamples - The topic is fuelled by the often negative press that bullying gets in the Press, often the local press which highlights the problem and over-hypes the issues with one-sided articles.
- I must, however, take issue with his very one-sided comments directed at club professionals.
- This is going to be the most biased, one-sided, totally untrustworthy book review you'll ever read.
- Academe is at it again, allowing a one-sided, biased article on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
- An egotistic, biased and one-sided approach in Washington cannot yield lasting peace.
- How dare they spend a day focusing on such one-sided issues and call it education.
- I see your compliance to publishing this man's diary as completely inappropriate, not to say shamefully one-sided and deeply biased.
- I am bitterly concerned with this one-sided, biased, anti-Israel report.
- He seems to find the media portrayal of him unfair, at least one-sided.
- I mean, I've never seen a political issue that is so one-sided among the public and that politicians are simply ignoring.
- They abandoned their former biased one-sided view which is of course an encouraging sign.
- Obviously, information would be one-sided and biased.
- Mountain said his views on this issue are not one-sided.
- Few political issues get more one-sided media treatment than ‘free trade.’
- The information that's in there isn't biased or one-sided.
- She said, as chairman of Bord Bia, she was very afraid that the consumer was taking a one-sided view on the issue.
- A democracy encourages free press that provides both sides of the issue, not a one-sided Party mouthpiece, which the press has become.
- But I object to that becoming a very one-sided issue.
- But I think it is a serious mistake because it merely encourages the worse kind of one-sided, unfair attacks.
- Since I have so often criticized Mirror writers for one-sided, unfair or patently wrong items on Israel and its supporters, let me acknowledge the opposite for a change.
Synonyms biased, prejudiced, partisan, partial, preferential, discriminatory, coloured, inequitable, unfair, influenced, slanted, unjust, narrow-minded, bigoted - 1.1 (of a contest or conflict) having a gross inequality of strength or ability between the opponents.
Example sentencesExamples - The fight was stopped in round eleven in a very one-sided contest.
- The election for the prime minister's office was a one-sided contest that was never in doubt.
- This was a one-sided contest which ended on a final scoreline of Scartaglin 2-12, Listowel Emmets - 3.
- The 31-year-old Sydney Olympic gold medallist wasted little time in the ring and won the one-sided contest in two minutes and nine seconds for his eighth professional win.
- The format of the ICC Champions Trophy, the second-biggest one-day tournament in world cricket, has been tweaked to ensure fewer one-sided contests.
- We'd all better tune in; this could be the most one-sided contest since the Little Big Horn.
- A repeat never looked on the cards as Leigh scored at almost a point a minute in a one-sided contest.
- In a one-sided contest, the Kiev-born Scot blew the British No.3 off court 6-2, 6-1.
- The contest was somewhat one-sided, with the visiting Englishmen winning without much difficulty.
- Tens of thousands attended rallies to express their revulsion at the one-sided conflict and the slaughter of thousands of Iraqis.
- Inevitably, during a lull in what turned out to be a rather one-sided contest, the assembled spectators created their own entertainment.
- He did it in sensational style as he stopped the man ranked fifth in the world after just 97 seconds of a one-sided contest.
- The winners were in total control from the word go in a totally one-sided contest.
- Australia's match against Bangladesh should be a one-sided contest with attention focused on the match against England in Bristol on Sunday.
- And every half-footballer in the country wants to tog out for the media to make his or her name in a one-sided contest.
- In particular their kicking was superb as they humbled the Saints in a one-sided contest which saw the equal highest winning margin in the competition's history.
- Oozing confidence from the outset, the Jarlaths' boys were rampant in the first 25 minutes of an exceedingly one-sided contest.
- This was a one-sided contest, with Thistle's threat virtually constant.
- The one-sided contest, which India needed to win to keep alive their hopes for a berth in the final, saw Pakistan scoring three goals in each halves.
- Although the result suggests a one-sided contest, that was far from what happened and the performance has encouraged county officials.
Synonyms unequal, uneven, unbalanced, lopsided - 1.2 (of a relationship or conversation) having all the effort or activity coming from one participant.
Example sentencesExamples - On one occasion he saw the captain approaching the radio room so he picked up the phone and began a one-sided conversation.
- So Cordelia realized how pointless their long one-sided conversations were, Kerowyn thought with the slightest air of smugness.
- It teaches us that conversations are one-sided and that disagreements do not involve compromise or discussion.
- In time, this paid off and the one-sided conversation with New Zealand began.
- Still, though, I wasn't enjoying this one-sided conversation.
- Before he could continue his one-sided conversation, someone interrupted.
- A lot of these conversations are unfortunately one-sided.
- They sat down on a couch, catching up on recent events, although the conversation was rather one-sided, and the exhausted pair eventually fell asleep.
- Anyone who has known the joy of an animal in the house knows that it is not a one-sided relationship.
- Derrick shrugged, remembering the look on her face when she caught him and the horse involved in the one-sided conversation.
- After the one-sided conversation was concluded Winthrop had his personal shame and sorrow to contend with, and the unshaven grin of the grizzly wino who asked for money.
- The one-sided conversation ended when they had to get ready for supper and Kathryn ended it by saying that Stephanie was already the best friend she has ever had.
- Not all one-sided relationships are unhealthy.
- It's not a one-sided conversation where I continually whine about how much wearing pink sucks or something, but he really contributes.
- I could always hear him holding one-sided conversations.
- Laura normally just stood there and sighed while listening to the one-sided conversation (since she can't hear Wolf).
- That's why I halted the one-sided conversations long ago.
- The paper has never published details of these one-sided conversations for fear of legal reprisals.
- As I dunked the teabag into and out of the boiling water a couple of times, I couldn't help but overhear the strains of a one-sided conversation that drifted into the room.
- I feel guilty that Gwen and I have such a one-sided relationship.
- 1.3 Having or occurring on one side of something only.
printing one-sided documents Example sentencesExamples - You may get into the situation where you need to create a one-sided document in profit center accounting.
- He went to the 5th District Court of Appeals and said, These cannot be released because they are one-sided documents.
- Therefore, when the double-sided or one-sided copy is made from the double-sided original document, the finished copy can be obtained without a reversed even page
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