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One-sidedly

One-sided \One`-sid"ed\, a.

  1. Having one side only, or one side prominent.

  2. Hence: Limited to one side; favoring one person or side over another; partial; unjust; unfair; as, a one-sided view or statement. [WordNet sense 5] ``Unguarded and one-sided language.''
    --T. Arnold.

    Syn: biased, colored, slanted.

  3. Having one team or party greatly superior; strongly favoring only one side; uneven; imbalanced; unequal; as, a one-sided contest; -- of contests, generally. [WordNet sense 4]

  4. (Bot.) Growing on one side of a stem; as, one-sided flowers.

  5. Using only one side, or having only one side usable; as, one-sided printing; one-sided film; -- used mostly of sheets of material used for printing or imaging.

  6. Performed by only one party or side; -- of actions directly affecting more than one party. Opposite of multilateral. [WordNet sense 2]

    Syn: unilateral (vs. bilateral).

  7. out of proportion in shape.

    Syn: ill-proportioned, lopsided.

  8. Not reversible or capable of having either side out; -- of cloth fabrics or clothing. Opposite of reversible.

    Syn: nonreversible. [WordNet 1.5] -- One`-sid"ed*ly, adv. -- One`-sid"ed*ness, n.

Wiktionary
one-sidedly

adv. 1 In a one-sided or biased manner. 2 In a manner which physically favors or uses only one side of something.

Usage examples of "one-sidedly".

Auld Angus, counselor, arbiter of quarrels, patiently listening to a boy who was one-sidedly in love .

Perhaps the earl’s moment of recognition had begun one-sidedly, but it hadn’t stayed that way, and that was the reason she’d found herself picking at it so long last night.

Perhaps the earl's moment of recognition had begun one-sidedly, but it hadn't stayed that way, and that was the reason she'd found herself picking at it so long last night.

It is said that humanity has evolved one-sidedly, growing in technical power without any comparable growth in moral integrity, or, as some would prefer to say, without comparable progress in education and rational thinking.

The warmth-ether achieves this by freeing matter from being controlled one-sidedly by the centre-bound forces of the earth.

Matern is patient and speaks, between one-sidedly snow-laden telegraph poles, about parting, which must always be anticipated.