What's the difference between lobsided and lopsided?
Lobsided
Definition:
(a.) See Lopsided.
Example Sentences:
Lopsided
Definition:
(a.) Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship.
(a.) Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; full of idiosyncrasies.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has prolonged the recession and promoted a lopsided and unbalanced recovery which promises another collapse in the not-distant future.
(2) There is a half-drunk glass of white wine abandoned on the coffee table at his Queensferry home - the Browns had friends around for dinner the previous night - and a stack of children's books and board games piled lopsidedly under a Christmas tree now shedding needles with abandon.
(3) It fills me with hope of change.” But, as local historian Eusebio Leal Spengler led the Obamas through the deserted streets, the tour also hinted at the dangers of lopsided tourist development that could leave the stunningly beautiful city centre feeling like a permanent theme park if mishandled.
(4) Because if the prime minister had half an eye on the longer run, he would realise that the current imbalance of power between workers and bosses, between labour and capital is so lopsided as to threaten the very political and economic viability of this form of capitalism.
(5) For Cohn, a teddy boy at heart, neither came close to the glamour and speed fix of the rapidly receding “golden age” he wrote about with such dash: Elvis’s “great ducktail plume and lopsided grin”, Phil Spector’s “beautiful noise”, and James Brown, “the outlaw, the Stagger Lee of his time”.
(6) The costs of progress in Latin America include lopsided and strained development (45% of Chile's people live in poverty compared to 20% in 1970).
(7) In a speech to the CBI, he will say: "Everyone agrees now that in the past Britain's economy had become lopsided – too dependent on debt, consumption and financial services.
(8) Lasse Gustavson, head of WWF's delegation, said: "While we think some of the new text is a good base for the future, such as the language on oceans, we see a lopsided victory of weak words over action words ,with the weak words winning out at 514 to 10."
(9) The signatories, including Eagle-Eye Cherry, Andreas Johnson, and members of Hellacopters, Peter Bjorn and John, and the Wannadies, attribute the lopsided distribution to the major labels insisting on tough terms in order to licence Spotify in the first place – including shares in the company and huge advances – while the music publishers and STIM, who represent songwriters, initially agreed to terrible licensing terms in order for the service to even get off the ground.
(10) The combination of liberalised banking with an undemocratic, lopsided and deflationary currency union that critics (on both left and right in this case) had always argued risked breaking apart was a disaster waiting to happen.
(11) But there was widespread frustration at the weakness of the compromise document and its lopsided emphasis on the economy above than the environment.
(12) This lopsided approach means neither the chancellor, George Osborne, nor the Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, knows what is really happening to overall workers' earnings.
(13) If the origins of this deal have been tortuous, the final outcome could end up looking dramatically lopsided – even by the outlandish financial standards of national newspapers.
(14) The original contract was "lopsided" and "poorly-constructed", he says.
(15) It is this culture of lopsided sacrifice that has to stop – and the Rockefellers, oddly, are showing the way.
(16) The lopsided nature of industrial action is not new to Belgium, but is seen as creating more tensions than before, because the Flemish separatists, the N-VA (New Flemish Alliance), are now the largest party in government.
(17) Surgery to remove a tumour from his jaw in the 1980s left Broecker's face slightly lopsided, adding to an impression of eccentricity.
(18) Without Bryant, the San Antonio Spurs swept the Lakers in the first round of the postseason, a series that ended in Staples Center with Dwight Howard ending his forgettable tenure in LA by semi-deliberately fouling out of the lopsided loss .
(19) Progressives share so much, but so often our human nature and lopsided structures get in the way.
(20) In games between closely matched teams, which this series truly is despite the 76ers being a eight seed, lopsided scores are often as much the result of friendly bounces and random hot shooting streaks as anything else.