(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.
Unbalanced
Definition:
(a.) Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise.
(a.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books.
(a.) Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(2) The erythrocytes of subjects with moderate and severe alcoholic liver cirrhosis had an unbalanced antioxidant system (normal superoxide dismutase, low catalase and glutathione peroxidase activities, and low glutathione content).
(3) Deletions and unbalanced translocations of the short arm of chromosome 1 also were found in four cases, affecting band p32 in three of them.
(4) This unusual pattern of unbalanced growth may represent an adaptation by bdellovibrios to maximize their progeny yield from the determinate amount of substrate available within a given prey cell.
(5) Using 166 pedigrees, reported in nine series available in the literature (including our own), we conclude that balanced insertion cannot entirely explain the familial data, even if we allow for a reduced viability of unbalanced gametes.
(6) It has prolonged the recession and promoted a lopsided and unbalanced recovery which promises another collapse in the not-distant future.
(7) World economic growth becomes more unbalanced and the terms of trade widen.
(8) Sporulation occurs during the late logarithmic phase of a culture, a time of slow but unbalanced growth.
(9) These results suggest that the motor dysfunctions observed in MNU treated rats are induced by unbalanced output activities from Purkinje cells to motor neurons.
(10) The proportion of spermatozoa with an unbalanced form of the translocation was 53%.
(11) This result, associated with the enlarged flagellar pocket, suggests an unbalanced cytoplasmic exchange between exocytosis and endocytosis.
(12) This is the first example of a paternally-derived PWCR allele loss caused by an unbalanced translocation that has arisen de novo.
(13) In all cases abnormal clones present an apparently unbalanced karyotype, characterised by excess material.
(14) "The private sector and private sector leaders also need to realise that only agreements that are fair and mutually beneficial will stand the test of time because if it is unfair and unbalanced, a new leader will come in and throw it all out.
(15) The unbalanced growth detected in S. cerevisiae NCYC 86 under inositol deprivation might be due to an abnormal functioning of the cell membranes as a consequence of the deficiency in inositol-containing phospholipids.
(16) Complications from ARDS include stress ulcers, which occur when gastric aggressive and defensive functions become unbalanced.
(17) The proposita, carrier of the unbalanced form of the translocation, resulted partially monosomic for short arm of chromosome 8 (8p-) and partially trisomic for short arm of chromosome 13.
(18) Cytogenetic studies on a phenotypically normal fertile male revealed an unbalanced Y; 15 translocation.
(19) It is possible that the occurrence of the short period of "unbalanced growth" induced by such DNA damaging agents leads to filament formation.
(20) In language eerily familiar to student politicians across the land, Abetz continued: “The new managing director will inherit an unbalanced and largely centralised public broadcaster which has become a protection racket for the left ideology.” For decades the highly trusted public broadcaster has weathered a relentless stream of attacks by the crusaders of the (increasingly) hard right in Australia.