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Biased

adjective

Favoring one person or side over another. Synonyms: colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted. "A decision that was partial to the defendant"

Bias

verb

(past & past part. biased; pres. part. biasing)

Influence in an unfair way.

Cause to be biased. Synonym: predetermine.

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"Biased" Quotes from Famous Books

... Northumberland considered himself as intending and planning a deliberate usurpation of power. There was a real uncertainty in respect to the question who was the true and rightful heir to the crown. Northumberland was, undoubtedly, strongly biased by his interest, but he may have been unconscious of the bias, and in advocating the mode of succession on which the continuance of his own power depended, he may have really believed that he was only maintaining what was in itself rightful ...

— Queen Elizabeth - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... the memory of that courageous and brilliant pathfinder. When they do so, two memorable scenes in the life of their heroine will probably be represented in bas-relief upon the pedestal. The one will portray Miss Burney, hopeless of ever inducing a biased public to read a woman's work, making a bonfire of the manuscripts to which she had devoted such patient care. The other will illustrate the famous scene when Miss Burney danced a jig to Daddy Crisp round the great mulberry-tree at Chessington. It was, her diary ...

— Mushrooms on the Moor • Frank Boreham

... agreeably to the laws of the Inquisition. And now the person was named; for, till it is determined whether the accused person should or should not be apprehended, his name is kept concealed from the counsellors, lest they should be biased, says the directory, in his favor, or against him. For, in many instances, they keep up an appearance of justice and equity, at the same time that, in truth, they act in direct opposition to all the known laws of justice and equity. No words can ...

— Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal • Sarah J Richardson

... nation of destruction, rather than of construction, so far as our timber is concerned, and this is more noticeable in fruit and nut trees than in other varieties; although, being interested chiefly in these I possibly am biased. ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting • Various

... Facts prejudicial to his Cause; upon which the Judge said: "If you had Confessed the Truth it would have Biased me in your Favor; as it is, I ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various

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