biased
adjective
having or showing bias or prejudice.
biassed
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a variation of
biased.
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past participleof bias.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
biasnouna particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned. -
past tense formof bias.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
biasnouna particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned.
Example Sentences
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They proceed to their work with a biassed mind.
From Tobacco Leaves Being a Book of Facts for Smokers by W. A. Brennan
In a question of this kind the mind is perhaps unconsciously biassed by comparing one antiquarian idea with another.
From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Thomas Inman
That Mr. Wallace himself should be biassed in this matter might, perhaps, be expected.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes
I have particular pleasure in quoting these words by a man of immense erudition, because he does not belong to orthodox writers, and will not therefore be thought biassed by a preconceived opinion.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
These gentlemen know the river well enough as it now is, and are not biassed by old memories of what it once was but is no longer.
From Boating by W. B. Woodgate
