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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bias \Bi"as\, verb (used with an object) [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) 2.0 [wn]:
biased
adjective
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "biased": across, antiblack, aslant, aslope, athwart, atilt, bendwise, bent, bevel, beveled, bias, biaswise, canting, careening, catercorner, catercornered, chauvinistic, colored, cooked, crossways, crosswise, diagonal, disposed, distorted, doctored, doctrinaire, dogmatic, garbled, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, influenced, interested, involved, jaundiced, kittycorner, know-nothing, leaning, listing, misquoted, misrepresented, nonobjective, one-sided, opinionated, out of plumb, out of square, partial, partisan, perverted, pitched, predisposed, prejudiced, prepossessed, racist, raking, recumbent, sexist, shelving, shelvy, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, strained, superpatriotic, swayed, tendentious, thwart, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, tortured, transverse, twisted, ultranationalist, undetached, undispassionate, unneutral, warped, xenophobic
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