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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Yet the man might be biassed; sympathy for the deceived might paint the deceiver's conduct in colours even blacker than the truth demanded.
From Second String by Anthony Hope
My Lewis always says that my figure is exactly right, but I dare say he's biassed.
From The War-Workers by E.M. Delafield
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
In′terested, having an interest or concern: affected or biassed by personal considerations, self-interest, &c.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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
