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English Dictionary: biased by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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"
    Synonym(s): biased, colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bias \Bi"as\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Biased} (b[imac]"[ait]st); 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.
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