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one-sidedness

/wuhn-sahy-did/US // ˈwʌnˈsaɪ dɪd //

片面性,单面性,一面性,一面倒

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : considering but one side of a matter or question; partial or unfair: a one-sided judgment.
    • : with one party, contestant, side, etc., vastly superior; unbalanced; unequal: a one-sided fight.
    • : existing or occurring on one side only.
    • : having but one side, or but one developed or finished side.
    • : having one side larger or more developed than the other.
    • : Law. involving the action of one person only.
    • : having the parts all on one side, as an inflorescence.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounbias

Examples

  • Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.

  • In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.

  • Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

  • The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.

  • The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.

  • Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

  • He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

  • There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.

  • Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.

  • Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.