Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Marked by or exhibiting bias; prejudiced: gave a biased account of the trial.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of bias.
- adj. exhibiting bias; prejudiced
- adj. angled at a slant
WordNet 3.0
- adj. favoring one person or side over another
Examples
“The term biased refers to a person or group who is judged to exhibit bias.”
“At the same time, one of his attorneys, Joel Brodsky, said he hoped that Lifetime, which is making the movie, would not rely on Hosey's book, which he characterized as biased and inaccurate.”
“At one point Santorum refused to talk when a Patriot-News reporter approached with a question about Iran, complaining about what he called biased coverage.”
“The Zimbabwean media singled out the U.S. network CNN for what it called biased reports on political unrest and on the alleged assault and torture earlier this month of opposition leaders, including Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main Movement for”
“U.S. network CNN for what it called biased reports on political unrest and on the alleged assault and torture earlier this month of opposition leaders, including Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main”
“State radio and television, Zimbabwe's sole broadcaster, and the daily Herald newspaper, a government mouthpiece, singled out the U.S. network CNN for what it called biased reports on political unrest and the alleged assault and torture of opposition leaders, including Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main Movement for Democratic Change.”
“Santorum complained about what he called biased coverage.”
“The submission also condemned what it called biased commentary and the imposition of a particular economic ideology in news and current affairs.”
“A petition signed by more than 100 U.S. civil rights and religious leaders on Wednesday asked the United Nations to take up what they called the biased implementation of the U.S. "war on drugs" at the upcoming U.N. World Conference Against Racism.”
“Joel Brodsky, said he hoped that Lifetime, which is making the movie, would not rely on Hosey's book, which he characterized as biased and inaccurate.”
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EN - eloquence in public speaking
Key words from "The Training of a Public Speaker" by Grenville Kleiser (New York and London, 1920)
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TOEFL
Words for TOEFL to remember.
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