biased

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++bi·ased, biassed /ˈbaɪəst/ AWL adjective 1 unfairly preferring one person or group over another 有偏见的；偏袒一方的 Of course I’m biased, but I thought my daughter’s paintings were the best. 当然我有偏心，但我还是认为我女儿的画最好。 racially biased attitudes 带种族偏见的态度biased against/towards/in favour of news reporting that was heavily biased towards the government 极度偏袒政府的新闻报道2 more interested in a particular thing than in another 有偏重的，有偏向的biased towards The majority of infants are biased towards being social rather than being antisocial. 大多数婴儿的性格偏向于合群，而非不合群。

Examples from the Corpus

biased• 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.• I may be a little biased about this one, but I now consider it to be of a very high standard.• If your advisor is also selling financial products, you may get biased advice.• University acceptance policies seem to be biased against minorities.• Roughly four-fifths of Sun readers believed the paper was biased against the Labour party.• Much of the information the clinics gave people was incomplete and biased in favour of educated middle-class clients.• In the report members of the police were accused of acting illegally and it was suggested that they were biased in favour of Inkatha.• When small samples are used to estimate population standard deviations, the results are biased in the direction of underestimation.• Still less can they accept impartial public broadcasting combined with a biased press and biased satellite television.• There have been complaints about biased reporting in the tabloid press.• racially biased reporting• The system is so biased that many citizens simply do not register to vote.• Most newspapers are biased towards one political party or the other.• Export policy has been biased towards overseas customers.heavily biased• Clearly one source is unreliable, and the interpretations which it offers are heavily biased.• Often he did not know what was really going on, and anyway he is heavily biased in his father's favour.• And the prevailing compensation structure in practically all businesses reinforces this attitude because it is heavily biased towards managerial positions and titles.• The problem of an influential tabloid press heavily biased towards one particular party is more difficult.• The examples developed here are heavily biased towards the leadership and intellectual rationalization for the movement.

bi·ased adjectiveChineseSyllable

one Corpus or over preferring another group person unfairly

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biased
bi‧ased AC

, biassed /ˈbaɪəst/ adjective

Word Family: verb: bias; noun: bias; adjective: biased ≠ unbiased

1. unfairly preferring one person or group over another:

Of course I’m biased, but I thought my daughter’s paintings were the best.

racially biased attitudes
biased against/towards/in favour of

news reporting that was heavily biased towards the government
2. more interested in a particular thing than in another
biased towards

The majority of infants are biased towards being social rather than being antisocial.

THESAURUS

   ▪ unfair/not fair not right or fair, especially because not everyone has an equal opportunity: The present welfare system is grossly unfair. | It’s not fair that people are paying different prices for the same tickets.
   ▪ unjust not fair or right according to the principles of a particular society: He believed it was an illegal and unjust war. | unjust laws
   ▪ unequal unfair because people are treated in different ways or because some people have more power than others: We live in a deeply unequal society. | the unequal distribution of global resources
   ▪ inequitable formal unfair because people are treated in different ways, or because some people have more power than others: inequitable tax laws | The system is inequitable, because it makes it possible for rich people to buy a place at university.
   ▪ biased unfairly against or in favour of a particular group: biased reporting | There were claims that prison bosses were racially biased. | The policy was biased against women. | The trade laws are biased in favour of rich countries.

biased AW

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/ˈbaɪəst/

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NAmE

/ˈbaɪəst/

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adjective

~ (toward(s)/against/in favour of sb/sth)