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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
biased
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
heavily
▪ The problem of an influential tabloid press heavily biased towards one particular party is more difficult.
▪ Clearly one source is unreliable, and the interpretations which it offers are heavily biased.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Export policy has been biased towards overseas customers.
▪ If your advisor is also selling financial products, you may get biased advice.
▪ Most newspapers are biased towards one political party or the other.
▪ Much of the information the clinics gave people was incomplete and biased in favour of educated middle-class clients.
▪ racially biased reporting
▪ Roughly four-fifths of Sun readers believed the paper was biased against the Labour party.
▪ The system is so biased that many citizens simply do not register to vote.
▪ There have been complaints about biased reporting in the tabloid press.
▪ University acceptance policies seem to be biased against minorities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I may be a little biased about this one, but I now consider it to be of a very high standard.
▪ In the report members of the police were accused of acting illegally and it was suggested that they were biased in favour of Inkatha.
▪ It was not intended to sound biased.
▪ Nor is the fact that a document is biased a reason for dismissing the document as worthless or unreliable.
▪ Still less can they accept impartial public broadcasting combined with a biased press and biased satellite television.
▪ When small samples are used to estimate population standard deviations, the results are biased in the direction of underestimation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biased

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
biased

1610s in reference to bowling, 1660s in reference to persons; past participle adjective from bias (v.).

Wiktionary
biased

  1. 1 exhibiting bias; prejudiced 2 angled at a slant 3 (''electrical engineering'') on which an electrical bias is applied alt. (en-past of: bias) v

  2. (en-past of: bias)

WordNet
biased

  1. adj. 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]

Usage examples of "biased".

If a cop is biased, sooner or later that bias is going to come out on the job, is what reporters say.

This is why so many people see the media as arrogant, elitist and biased, and why Mr.

The time has come to shift the debate from whether the news is biased to what can be done to correct it.

Fox hired John Ellis, and John Ellis, who is obviously biased, called the election for Bush.

We have to have the freedom to be biased or to believe whatever we believe, regardless of how wrong or objectionable others may think it is.

Consequently, investments large and small are accurately gauged in the current business, whereas estimates of their value are downwardly biased in a potential new business.

Among the most biased news sources were - no surprises here - the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Elvox made a mental note to subpoena that tapas in any legal dispute, to see if it was biased.

The claim that its findings are in general arbitrary and biased is not merely tendentious, but specious.

Congressional Budget Office and a bevy of Democratic economists had to use unadjusted census data to construct a measure of average family income biased by rising divorce rates and the growth of single-parent households.

Rumsfeld, the JCS chief told associates, had been a Navy fighter pilot, seemed partial to the Navy and the Marines, and was biased against the Army because it had mechanized forces and had taken on Balkan peacekeeping missions that the Bush administration considered to be a distraction.

Eivaunee that Captain Sheris had given him a brief, and completely biased, report of what had happened in CommCent.

Anytime a cop tries to falsify evidence or a prosecutor presents a biased criminal complaint, I say put that bastard in jail instead of his victim!

Terry spits oot, hands oan ehs hips, shakin ehs heid, pittin me in mind ay an exasperated fitba player whae expects nae justice fae a biased referee.

They recognize that accounts of events have passed through biased human filters, and that historians themselves have biases.