Biased meaning

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The definition of biased is unfairly showing favoritism towards something or someone.

If you favored one of the candidates going into a contest over the other, this is an example of when you were biased.

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Biased means influenced.

If you convinced the judges to lean towards the candidate of your choice by offering them a bribe, this is an example of when you biased the judges.

verb
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See bias.
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Simple past tense and past participle of bias.

She biased them against him for no apparent reason.

verb
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Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.

The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.

adjective
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The table had a biased edge.

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Marked by or exhibiting bias; prejudiced.

Gave a biased account of the trial.

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Biased Sentence Examples

  • The plan was biased in favor of small parties.

  • Biased bowls were introduced in the 16th century.

  • Saint-Simon's fine but biased account of the court in her day and of her career is contained in the twelfth volume of Cheruel and Regnier's edition of his Memoires.

  • From the sublimity of Thucydides, and Xenophon's straightforward story, history passed with Theopompus and Ephorus into the field of rhetoric. A revival of the scientific instinct of investigation is discernable in Timaeus the Sicilian, at the end of the 4th century, but his attack upon his predecessors was the text of a more crushing attack upon himself by Polybius, who declares him lacking in critical insight and biased by passion.

  • For Edward the Confessor there is an almost equally biased biography.

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