biased
adjective
[ ˈbʌɪəst ]
• unfairly prejudiced for or against someone or something.
• "we will not tolerate this biased media coverage"
bias
verb
• cause to feel or show inclination or prejudice for or against someone or something.
• "all too often, our recruitment processes are biased towards younger candidates"
Similar:
prejudice,
influence,
colour,
sway,
weight,
predispose,
distort,
skew,
bend,
twist,
warp,
angle,
load,
slant,
prejudiced,
partial,
partisan,
one-sided,
blinkered,
subjective,
bigoted,
intolerant,
discriminatory,
racist,
racialist,
sexist,
heterosexist,
homophobic,
anti-gay,
chauvinistic,
chauvinist,
anti-Semitic,
jaundiced,
distorted,
warped,
twisted,
skewed,
parti pris,
• give a bias to.
• "bias the valve so that the anode current is normally zero or small"
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘oblique line’; also as an adjective meaning ‘oblique’): from French biais, from Provençal, perhaps based on Greek epikarsios ‘oblique’.
