Thesaurus: bias

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1. n. A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.
2. n. A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.
3. n. A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
4. n. A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
5. a. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
6. a. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
7. adv. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
8. v. t. To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
9. adj. slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric
10. n. a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
11. n. a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
12. v. influence in an unfair way