one-sided

adjective

ˈwən-ˈsī-dəd How to pronounce one-sided (audio)
Definition of one-sidednext
as in partial
inclined to favor one side over another my neighbor's account of how the feud got started was somewhat one-sided

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Recent Examples of one-sided Penalties one-sided so far The 15-yard penalty for roughing the kicker that extended a New England drive in the third quarter was just the latest flag on the Seahawks. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 10 Sep. 2026 And the game was so one-sided that the teams agreed to shave five minutes off the fourth quarter, setting the clock for 10 minutes instead of the standard 15. — ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026 But most people who sign up for the doc will have long ago made up their minds about Musk, so a one-sided argument won’t be a problem. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026 The question is where the line should be drawn when an opening act uses a global concert platform to advance a one-sided political agenda. — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for one-sided
Recent Examples of Synonyms for one-sided
  1. partial
  2. hostile
  3. distorted
  4. partisan
  5. biased
Adjective
  • Deluxe Darling Harbour Rooms start at 40 to 50 square metres, but Deluxe Opera House City View Rooms, one tier up, are the most popular, with partial views of the Sydney icon.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • OpenAI’s agents also crawled millions of pages and made thousands of data queries, which may have led to the partial outage of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) in May, the post adds.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of partial
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  • Still, her willingness to enjoy a hostile road crowd offers a useful perspective in a league where interactions with spectators have become such a consuming subject.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said the approval didn’t include hostile actions that go against international law.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of hostile
Adjective
  • Lula’s coalition filed a legal complaint requesting that the avatar’s profiles be taken down, on the grounds that the anonymous accounts peddled false or distorted information that could mislead voters.
    — Constance Malleret, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The shoegaze sound keeps evolving, as young artists keep hearing themselves in those mega-distorted waves of guitar fuzz.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of distorted
Adjective
  • More than two-thirds of people currently in immigration detention centers have not been convicted of a crime, according to multiple non-partisan organizations.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Unfortunately, despite a vast expansion of executive branch authority, Congress seems prepared to let partisan advantage trump comity, cooperation and the public’s right to know.
    — David Wippman, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of partisan
Adjective
  • If these are fragmented, biased or outdated, greater intelligence may simply scale poor judgment faster.
    — Babajide Ojuola, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The whole program was abandoned in 2025, with Meta claiming that expert judgments had come to be experienced as biased censorship.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of biased

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“One-sided.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/one-sided. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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