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, nor should
it have biased any just critic in the counter
direction. --De Quincey.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
biased
adj 1: favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account
of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the
defendant" [syn: colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted]
2: excessively devoted to one faction [syn: one-sided]
WordNet (r) 2.0
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "biased":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted
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