Biassed is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BIASSED in dictionary:

VERB (USED WITH OBJECT) [BI·ASED, BI·AS·ING, (ESPECIALLY BRITISH) BI·ASSED, BI·AS·SING.]:
• to cause to hold or exhibit a particular bias; to influence, especially unfairly: a tearful plea designed to bias the jury; a survey biased toward highly educated people.
• to apply a steady voltage or current to (the input of an active device).
VERB:
• BIAS, to cause to incline to one side
NOUN:
• a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned: illegal bias against older job applicants; the magazine’s bias toward art rather than photography; our strong bias in favor of the idea.
• unreasonably hostile feelings or opinions about a social group; prejudice: accusations of racial bias.
• an oblique or diagonal line of direction, especially across a woven fabric.
• a systematic as opposed to a random distortion of a statistic as a result of sampling procedure.
• the application of a steady voltage or current to an active device, as a diode or transistor, to produce a desired mode of operation.
• a high-frequency alternating current applied to the recording head of a tape recorder during recording in order to reduce distortion.
• a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned: illegal bias against older job applicants; the magazine’s bias toward art rather than photography; our strong bias in favor of the idea.
ADVERB:
• in a diagonal manner; obliquely; slantingly: to cut material bias.
ADJECTIVE:
• cut, set, folded, etc., diagonally: This material requires a bias cut.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to prejudice

Words related to BIASSED

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Words that contain BIASSED

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How to use BIASSED in a sentence

• News from biassed sources is always accepted with reservation, and not fully believed unless confirmed from independent sources.
• Laing, and are content to have shown that everywhere he is the same biassed, inconsequent, untrustworthy writer.
• Writing too at a time when the abolition was not even thought of, they could not have been biassed with any view to that event.
• At this time the passions of men had not been heated by any public agitation of the question, nor had interest felt itself biassed to conceal the truth.
• I went to Siberia entirely biassed in favour of this admittedly wonderful people.
• For the same reason, she read few works of contemporary fiction, that her mind might not be biassed and that she might not be discouraged in her own work.
• The jury by which he had been condemned was known to be strongly biassed against him, and an appeal had been forwarded against his sentence to the House of Lords.
• But when we examine it more critically than the biassed Chavanne did, we find, using his own data, more of Africa than appeared to be there at first sight.
• These younger men, to whom he attributes the change, were, in fact, the minds whom he had consciously or unconsciously fashioned and biassed.
• I am afraid, Ursula you have been somewhat biassed by Miss Hamilton.
• Local aid is always either worthless or else biassed.
• The pious son of the Church was biassed by the authority of two successive popes, and he was not unmoved by the indignation of his wife, the sister of Queen Eleanor.
• More than any other Roman historian he desired to tell the truth and was not fatally biassed by prejudice.
• But I confess, madam, I am already biassed in my choice.
• He is, therefore, an interested party, and he is more than likely to be biassed by what seems to be his interest.
• You must remember that his judgment is biassed by his early experiences.
• Had I been personally hostile to England, and biassed in favor of either the character or views of her great antagonist, the affair of the Chesapeake put war into my hand.
• We may have been biassed by feelings excited by our own distressing situation.
• Without doubt those learned men, who have preceded in these researches, would have bid fair for noble discoveries, had they not been too limited, and biassed, in their notions.
• William was naturally biassed to Calvinism, and averse to persecution.
• From these omissions, they concluded that the dictates of natural affection had biassed her in favour of the chevalier de St.
• They refused, he said, to be tried by the report of the committee, for its proceedings had been partial and biassed, and the investigation had not been complete.
• Not only is the informant likely to be biassed, but the cases which he will remember will be those in which something unusual has occurred.
• Her power was limited, and the consciousness of this limitation had biassed her development.
• Lord Mansfield too, who had been biassed by the opinion of York and Talbot, began to waver in consequence of the different pleadings he had heard on this subject.
• Writing too at a time, when the abolition was not even thought of, they could not have been biassed with any view to that event.
• Enveloped in darkness, and biassed to error, it is often difficult to find out the right way.
• No man has ever yet written a living history without being biassed.

Similar words containing BIASS without suffix ed

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