as in tilted
inclined or twisted to one side
the portrait in the foyer was lopsided, so I straightened it while I was waiting
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Recent Examples of lopsided
There are other lopsided games still taking place.
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Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
Forward thinking The loss to the Hornets was the Heat’s most-lopsided of the season, which quickly had Spoelstra putting it in his team’s rearview mirror.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
Kalani Brown scores 21 points and top-seeded Baylor overwhelms much smaller Texas Southern 119-30, the most lopsided women’s NCAA Tournament game.
—Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
Just because most of the American stars are highlighted in this graphic, however, doesn’t mean this is a lopsided matchup.
—Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2026
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Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
Forward thinking The loss to the Hornets was the Heat’s most-lopsided of the season, which quickly had Spoelstra putting it in his team’s rearview mirror.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
Kalani Brown scores 21 points and top-seeded Baylor overwhelms much smaller Texas Southern 119-30, the most lopsided women’s NCAA Tournament game.
—Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
Just because most of the American stars are highlighted in this graphic, however, doesn’t mean this is a lopsided matchup.
—Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lopsided
Adjective
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The Escalade also offers a large head up display and a tilted control panel to provide quick access to climate and other functions.—
Scotty Reiss,
Parents,
24 Feb. 2026
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Naturally, Uranus' tilted rotation has a part to play in how auroral activity manifests on the planet.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Everything—from the squat, one-story structure to the station wagon parked outside—had been coated in the same uneven layer of white paint, as if someone had tried, hurriedly, to erase it from the landscape.—
Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
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However, adoption remains uneven across sectors, reflecting differences in digital readiness and creating varied credit implications.—
Lee Ying Shan,Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Until then, smuggling weed had been a grand adventure, an escape from a society that had just thrown Prager’s generation into a meat grinder in Vietnam, a repudiation of the crooked politicians and backward preachers and greedy capitalists who were running the world.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
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For the most part, this lineup, chock full of All-Stars and Hall of Famers, has struggled to put up crooked numbers.—
Johnny Flores Jr,
New York Times,
17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Embiid sat out again with a right oblique strain.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Strider felt oblique tightness in his recent Grapefruit League start and then again in a bullpen session.—
Chad Bishop,
AJC.com,
23 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The numbers are a little skewed by the fact that there were three all-San Diego first-round games in Division 2.—
John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
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This ratio will almost certainly get more skewed toward Starlink, too; back in 2019, when the first Starlink satellites were launched, SpaceX filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for up to 30,000 additional satellites.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Lopsided.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lopsided. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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