Biased

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should
           it have biased any just critic in the counter
           direction.                               --De Quincey.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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