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Synonyms & Antonyms of bias
(Entry 1 of 3)
1
an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting especially without considering any other possibilities
- he has a powerful bias towards sentimentality, which comes through even in his grittier stories
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2
a habitual attraction to some activity or thing
- from her youth she revealed a strong bias toward a life of the mind
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adverbSynonyms & Antonyms of bias (Entry 2 of 3)
in a line or direction running from corner to corner
- made of fabric cut bias
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- athwart,
- cornerways,
- cornerwise,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- diagonally,
- kitty-corner
- (also catty-corner or catercorner or kitty-cornered or catty-cornered or catercornered),
- obliquely,
- transversely
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verbSynonyms of bias (Entry 3 of 3)
to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge
- bad reviews biased her against the movie, even though it starred one of her favorite actors
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The first known use of bias was in 1530
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