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uneven English

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Definitions in simple English

uneven

If something is uneven, it is not consistent, level or smooth. The uneven gravel road was paved with asphalt. A miscommunication resulted in an uneven distribution of rations.

uneven

not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture an uneven color uneven ground uneven margins wood with an uneven grain (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents vaudeville...waged an uneven battle against the church variable and recurring at irregular intervals an uneven gait uneven spacing (= odd) not divisible by two (= spotty) lacking consistency the golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty

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Simple sentences

The ground was very uneven.
The floor is uneven.
This floor is uneven.

Movie subtitles

The fight is too uneven.
But the rhythm of the beat is uneven.
I don't want to be rude, - but he seemed a little uneven.
He's more uneven sometimes than others.
That's what makes him uneven.
Rapid pulse. Respiration difficult and uneven.
Table's uneven.
There was nothing uneven about it.
This is uneven.
The lane is a little uneven.
That will make the count uneven.
Heat's uneven, but it should make the Martian nights endurable.
The ground's very uneven.
Two. Make it an uneven three.
Camus: one sold. - That will make the count uneven.
Make it an uneven three.
I want them uneven.
The ground under the wire is uneven.
At the northern end, it is now an uneven collection of swamps and ponds and thick overgrowth interrupted occasionally by pools of great depth.
Two uneven sugar cubes.
The road behind them had been rocky and uneven but we all felt the road ahead for Rose and Stanley would be in the best of repair paved as it would be with joy in each other sharing with friends their unfailing good humor and laughter.
Your hem is uneven.
My hem is uneven?
This is an uneven fight.
Does not it seem a bit uneven proposition?
The trajectory of his first simultaneous action of urine, was uneven.
Uneven is the course, I like it not.
Where do you come from, so tired and uneven?
The growth of my moustache is uneven.
Even, uneven, that is, evanescent and vermiform.

News and current affairs

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is off to an uneven start.
The UN admits that progress has been uneven, and that many of the MDGs are likely to be missed in most regions.
The global capitalist system has produced a very uneven playing field.
As skillful as Henrique Capriles Radonski, the opposition candidate, may be, the playing field is so uneven that he appears to stand little chance.
International trade is by definition a competition between companies on an uneven playing field.
All the alternatives are inferior: they either involve transfer payments, perpetuate an uneven playing field, or both.
Unfortunately, other signs point to an uneven, faltering global recovery.
The unfortunate result is an uneven playing field, with incentives for banks to relocate operations, whether geographically or in terms of legal entities.
The intention was laudable, but 11 years on, progress in achieving the MDGs has been uneven.
Even though science may clearly point to the best way to fight breast cancer, uneven application of new treatments may cause many women to suffer, or even die, unnecessarily.
Because the required skills acquired through formal education have become relatively scarcer, the education premium has risen, underpinning a more uneven distribution of income and wealth.
The risks to global growth will increase as long as adjustment remains uneven.
That declaration served the larger goal of establishing a stable, albeit uneven, triangular relationship among the US, Japan, and China.
The reality is that the global impact of agricultural liberalization in rich countries would be relatively small and highly uneven.
For most low- and middle-income countries, the incipient economic recovery appears to be fragile and uneven.
Certainly, America's actions in Iraq, contribution to global warming, and uneven commitment to multilateral problem-solving leave a much room for criticism of US behavior both.
The patchwork of 28 separate asylum systems is expensive and inefficient, and it produces wildly uneven results in terms of the reception, status determination, and integration of new arrivals.
The world economy would heal, but in a slow and uneven fashion, as advanced economies muddled through while the more dynamic emerging world gradually closed today's income and wealth gaps.
Parameters become variables; balance sheet repairs proceed in a slow and uneven fashion; and policymakers experience an uncomfortable shift in the balance of benefits, costs, and risks.
Indeed, corporations' growing share of income has been a major driver behind the long, if uneven, bull market in stocks that began in the early 1990's.
Indeed, the world has embarked on a path of gradual economic recovery, albeit uneven and far less vibrant than history would have suggested.
Access to land was uneven.
Nowhere is this more true than in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the uneven blows of history and varied national policies have resulted in a patchwork of fates for our many peoples.

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