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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Were those iniquitous proceedings an evidence of that "Justice, by nothing biassed or inclined, Deaf to persuasion, to temptation blind; Determined without favour, and the laws O'erlook the parties to decide the cause?"
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
Each, biassed by previous irritation, accused the other in his mind of taking the shot from him.
From Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies
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
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