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See also: onesided
English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
one-sided (comparative more one-sided, superlative most one-sided)
- Partial or biased in favour of one faction or demographic group.
- We were robbed! That referee was definitely one-sided.
- With one competitor dominant over the other.
- It was a swift, one-sided fight, all over in the second round.
- 2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC[1]:
- Lovenkrands only just failed to connect with another Enrique cross in what was becoming a one-sided affair at Ewood Park but despite Newcastle dominating, Blackburn held out with the half ending goalless.
- 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 14:13 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918[2], archived from the original on 4 August 2022:
- The fight is not all one-sided. Lion is taking a savage beating as the two flagships trade body blows almost independent of the furious carronade going on behind them.
- Out of proportion or lopsided.
- Having only one side, like a Möbius strip.
- (botany) Turned to one side.
- (logic, of a modality) That is necessarily or absolutely different than the respective coordinate alethic or temporal modality, but not its opposite.
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Translations[edit]
partial or biased in favour of one faction
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with one competitor dominant over the other
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out of proportion or lopsided
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having only one side
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