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lop-sided, lopsided, a.|ˌlɒpˈsaɪdɪd|
Also 8–9 lapsided, 9 lobsided.
[f. lop n.2 or v.2 + side n. + -ed2.]
That lops or appears to lop or lean on or towards one side; having one side lower or smaller than the other. Orig. Naut. (of a ship): Disproportionately heavy on one side; unevenly balanced.
1711W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 27 You will certainly have the Misfortune of a lapsided Ship. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Lap-sided, the state of a ship, which is built in such a manner as to have one side heavier than the other. 1820Praed Surly Hall 221 He drew me once..('twas lopsided, And squinted worse than ever I did). 1842Dickens Amer. Notes viii, An odd, lop⁓sided, one-eyed kind of wooden building. 1878D. Kemp Man. Yacht & Boat Sailing 356 Dict., Lob Sided, larger or heavier on one side than on the other. 1901Athenæum 10 Aug. 198/1 The church..was..lop-sided, as one aisle..was narrower than the other.
b. fig.
1850Kingsley Alt. Locke x. (1876) 118 The sooner we get the balance [of classes] equal the better; for it's rather lop⁓sided just now no one can deny. 1868Green Lett. ii. (1901) 200 The..article..is very lop-sided and unfair. 1891F. W. Newman Life J. H. Newman 11 So lobsided morality, if propounded in a Mormon Bible or by a Hottentot Potentate, would be spurned as self-confuted.
Hence lopˈsidedly adv., lop-ˈsidedness.
1843H. James Let. 11 May in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) I. 46 Thought heaped up to topheaviness and inevitable lopsidedness. 1875Carpentry & Join. 76 A degree of instability or lop⁓sidedness which should not exist. 1896Nat. Observer 21 Mar. 561/1 A turban..hanging lopsidedly over one ear. 1946Nature 21 Dec. 890/2 He makes, incidentally, a powerful case for some attempt to redress the lopsidedness of scientific advance. |