Hypertext Webster Gateway: "biased"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bias \Bi"as\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Biased} (b[imac]"ast); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Biasing}.]
To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to
influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.

Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should
it have biased any just critic in the counter
direction. --De Quincey.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

biased
adj 1: favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account
of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the
defendant" [syn: {colored}, {coloured}, {one-sided}, {slanted}]
2: excessively devoted to one faction [syn: {one-sided}]


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