Sided
['saɪdɪd] or ['wʌn'saɪdɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Side
(a.) Having (such or so many) sides; -- used in composition; as, one-sided; many-sided.
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Examples
- The nobles, who despised commerce, and the burghers, who lived by it, were always fighting for the upper hand, and the laboring people sided now with one party, and now with the other. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Disputes arose as to which was invented first, and long controversies between scientific societies, most of which sided with the friends of Davy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Compare what was said in an earlier chapter about the one-sided meanings which have come to attach to the ideas of efficiency and of culture. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I should have said Yes, if Mrs. Clements had not sided with my daughter about her dressing herself in white. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They sided with the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The thinking thus evoked is artificially one-sided at the best. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Even then he was many-sided. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There is no such thing as over-intellectuality, but there is such a thing as a one-sided intellectuality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And don't be one-sided, my dear madam; it's not considerate, it's not kind. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- To apply this method to history as if it meant only the truism that the present social state cannot be separated from its past, is one-sided. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his hand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Stimulation and response are exceedingly one-sided. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Consequently, it was one sided. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Many of the German princes, and especially the Elector of Saxony, sided with the reformer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is too one-sided a life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What was become of that curious one-sided friendship which was half marble and half lifeonly on one hand truth, and on the other perhaps a jest? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is too one-sided--too ungenerous. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Their desire is for a full and expressive life and they do not relish a lop-sided and lamed humanity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Some are flat, others half-round, three-sided, square and round. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- His next is to give it a one-sided bite at the edge as a test of its quality. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Young ladies are a little ardent, you know--a little one-sided, my dear. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- All Germany sided with Prussia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Consider what a one-sided way you have of looking at the matter, Clym. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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