biasedly
əst adjective
having or showing bias or prejudice: They gave us a biased report on immigration trends.
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bias (ˈbaɪəs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | mental tendency or inclination, esp an irrational preference or prejudice |
| 2. | a diagonal line or cut across the weave of a fabric |
| 3. | electronics the voltage applied to an electronic device or system to establish suitable working conditions |
| 4. | bowls |
| a. a bulge or weight inside one side of a bowl | |
| b. the curved course of such a bowl on the green | |
| 5. | statistics |
| a. an extraneous latent influence on, unrecognized conflated variable in, or selectivity in a sample which influences its distribution and so renders it unable to reflect the desired population parameters | |
| b. if T is an estimator of the parameter θ, the expected value of (T--θ) | |
| 6. | an inaudible high-frequency signal used to improve the quality of a tape recording |
| —adj | |
| 7. | slanting obliquely; diagonal: a bias fold |
| —adv | |
| 8. | obliquely; diagonally |
| —vb , -ases, -asing, -ased, -asses, -assing, -assed | |
| 9. | (usually passive) to cause to have a bias; prejudice; influence |
| [C16: from Old French biais, from Old Provençal, perhaps ultimately from Greek epikarsios oblique] | |
| 'biased | |
| —adj | |
| 'biassed | |
| —adj | |
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Biasedly
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
biased
1610s in reference to bowling, 1660s in reference to persons; pp. adj. from bias (q.v.).
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