also bi·assed
adjective
Marked by or exhibiting bias; prejudiced: gave a biased account of the trial.
adjective
- 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.
- 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.
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Verb
- Simple past tense and past participle of bias.
- She biased them against him for no apparent reason.
Adjective
(comparative more biased, superlative most biased)
- exhibiting bias; prejudiced
- The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.
- angled at a slant
- The table had a biased edge.
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Sentence Examples
- The plan was biased in favor of small parties.
- Biased bowls were introduced in the 16th century.
- Where religion is concerned, travellers in general and missionaries in particular are biased in several distinct ways.
- 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.
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