biased
Academic Word List, sublist 8.
About 4.29 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.
- adjective Having outcomes with unequal probabilities; weighted.
a biased coin
- adjective Angled at a slant.
The table had a biased edge.
- adjective On which an electrical bias is applied.
- adjective Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.
- verb simple past and past participle of bias
She biased them against him for no apparent reason.
Similar words
partial one-sided partizan partisan unfair slanted colored prejudiced prejudicial prejudice
Often followed by
in and by against toward towards to or sample
Word family
bias biases biasing
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