biased

biased
Synonyms and related words:
across, antiblack, aslant, aslope, athwart, atilt, bendwise, bent, bevel, beveled, bias, biaswise, canting, careening, catercorner, catercornered, chauvinistic, colored, cooked, crossways, crosswise, diagonal, disposed, distorted, doctored, doctrinaire, dogmatic, garbled, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, influenced, interested, involved, jaundiced, kittycorner, know-nothing, leaning, listing, misquoted, misrepresented, nonobjective, one-sided, opinionated, out of plumb, out of square, partial, partisan, perverted, pitched, predisposed, prejudiced, prepossessed, racist, raking, recumbent, sexist, shelving, shelvy, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, strained, superpatriotic, swayed, tendentious, thwart, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, tortured, transverse, twisted, ultranationalist, undetached, undispassionate, unneutral, warped, xenophobic

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  • biased — UK US (also biassed) /ˈbaɪəst/ adjective ► preferring or disliking someone or something more than someone or something else, in a way that means that they are treated unfairly: biased against sb/sth »He believes the American justice system is… …   Financial and business terms

  • biased — UK / US or biassed UK [ˈbaɪəst] / US adjective a) preferring one person, thing, or idea to another in a way that is unfair a biased report biased against/towards/in favour of someone/something: The salary structure was biased against women… …   English dictionary

  • biased — index disadvantageous, ex parte, exclusive (limited), illiberal, interested, one sided, parochial, par …   Law dictionary

  • biased — 1610s in reference to bowling, 1660s in reference to persons; pp. adjective from BIAS (Cf. bias) (v.) …   Etymology dictionary

  • biased — [[t]ba͟ɪ͟əst[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: usu v link ADJ, oft ADJ against/in favour of n If someone is biased, they prefer one group of people to another, and behave unfairly as a result. You can also say that a process or system is biased. He seemed a… …   English dictionary

  • biased — bi|ased biassed [ˈbaıəst] adj 1.) unfairly preferring one person or group over another ▪ Of course I m biased, but I thought my daughter s paintings were the best. ▪ racially biased attitudes biased against/towards/in favour of ▪ news reporting… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • biased — (also biassed) adj. VERBS ▪ be ADVERB ▪ extremely, very ▪ heavily, hopelessly, strongly …   Collocations dictionary

  • biased — adj. 1) strongly biased 2) biased against; towards * * * [ baɪəst] towards strongly biased biased against …   Combinatory dictionary

  • Biased — Bias Bi as, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Biased} (b[imac] ast); p. pr. & vb. n. {Biasing}.] To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess. [1913 Webster] Me it had not biased in the one direction,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • biased — adjective Date: 1649 1. exhibiting or characterized by bias; especially prejudiced 2. tending to yield one outcome more frequently than others in a statistical experiment < a biased coin > 3. having an expected value different …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • biased — adjective a) exhibiting bias; prejudiced The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident. b) angled at a slant The table had a biased edge …   Wiktionary

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