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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What impartial judge would allow his mind to be biassed by them, altered and garbled as they must unquestionably be, even supposing that their originals once existed?
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
He was not one to be biassed by personal feelings or beguiled by fair appearances, in the face of stubborn, unaccountable facts.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
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 should make a statistical inquiry among school-children, before their pristine wisdom had been biassed by teachers.
From The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll by Various
Christina thinks you're so anxious not to favour him because he's your nephew that you are positively biassed against him.
From Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
