bias
noun
a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned.
had biassed
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past perfectof bias.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The result may be read with graphic effect in the pages of Arthur Young, both before the Revolution broke out and again after Burke's superb rhetoric had biassed English opinion against it.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century by John Morley
This foolish conspiracy had biassed thousands of order-loving citizens against conservative measures.
From The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow by Robert Grant
I have told Monsieur de Marquet that the man's threats had biassed the examining magistrate against him.
From Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
Hayward declared some woman had biassed him; Kinglake was of opinion that by studying the ètat of Queen Elizabeth Froude had “gone and turned himself into an old maid.”
From Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake by William Tuckwell
