Synonym: colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted. Similar words: unbiased, bias, pleased, based on, released, increased, displeased, IAS. Meaning: [baɪəst] adj. favoring one person or side over another.
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61. As I hope to demonstrate later, by far the largest majority of infants are biased towards being social rather than antisocial.
62. The judge was biased.
63. It is therefore important that the procedure used to produce a sample of visitors is not biased by size of group.
64. Clearly one source is unreliable, and the interpretations which it offers are heavily biased.
65. It is not biased towards the way that the data may be accessed from storage media.
66. I may be a little biased about this one, but I now consider it to be of a very high standard.
67. The system was, perhaps irreversibly, biased towards the selection of middle-class children.
68. Biased interpretations have now and again been put forward as propaganda to promote a country or political or religious ideologies.
69. This has led to accusations that IFAs are just as biased as tied agents.
70. The Miami Police Department, for example, screened applicants for the department with an allegedly biased test.
71. That is certainly a clear message about the power of tradition, even when it is biased and oppressive.
72. So when the press was biased towards the political right, television coverage would redress the balance by leaning to the left.
73. The present line-item budgeting system is not an economic system but a political one biased towards the government of the day.
74. Biased estimates of variation in reproductive success may also cause the effects of particular phenotypic traits on reproductive success to be overestimated.
75. Nor is the fact that a document is biased a reason for dismissing the document as worthless or unreliable.
76. Potential customers for freeze branding could well be put off by seeing this biased statement in a reputable magazine.
77. Indeed, its method of taking decisions is inherently biased toward caution.
78. They see social security staff as biased and prejudiced against the poor and only too ready to evade their responsibility to help.
79. The editorial matter can be biased to presenting a favourable buying climate for speculative stocks.
80. In the report members of the police were accused of acting illegally and it was suggested that they were biased in favour of Inkatha.
81. The Godhead, or at least Christology,(Sentencedict.com) then appears to be biased against women.
82. It was a well-kept secret that the old system was biased in favor of residential customers.
83. When small samples are used to estimate population standard deviations, the results are biased in the direction of underestimation.
84. And if black students performed far less well on the SATs than whites, it was because standardized tests were culturally biased. Sentencedict.com
85. Wolfe also contends that Sulloway was culturally biased by assuming all families throughout history have had the same structure.
86. Biased rubbish, distortions, Tory propaganda, consumer pap, trivia, silly stories - they hadn't changed.
87. Dances with Wolves was so biased towards the Sioux that the Crow Nation publicly called it racist.
88. Much of the information the clinics gave people was incomplete and biased in favour of educated middle-class clients.
89. Her colleagues are generally biased against her.
90. A testing effort biased toward functional testing.
More similar words: unbiased, bias, pleased, based on, released, increased, displeased, IAS, fiasco, phobia, diaspora, namibian, verbiage, amphibian, proverbial, xenophobia, enthusiasm, arabian sea, acrophobia, enthusiast, agoraphobia, hydrophobia, enthusiastic, elephantiasis, paterfamilias, ecclesiastical, trichomoniasis, claustrophobia, enthusiastically, used.