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Biased vs Unfair - What's the difference?

biased | unfair |

As adjectives the difference between biased and unfair

is that biased is exhibiting bias; prejudiced while unfair is not fair, unjust.

As a verb biased

is past tense of bias.

biased

English

Alternative forms

* (UK) biassed

Verb

(head)
  • (bias)
  • She biased them against him for no apparent reason.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • exhibiting bias; prejudiced
  • The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.
  • angled at a slant
  • The table had a biased edge.

    Synonyms

    * (having a partial view) partial, prejudiced, tendentious

    Anagrams

    *

    unfair

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Not fair, unjust.
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  • , author=John T. Jost , title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , volume=100, issue=2, page=162 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair .}}
    It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.

    See also

    * biased * cheating * discriminatory * dishonest * dishonorable * disproportionate * excessive * foul * inequitable * invidious * partial * prejudiced * underhanded * unequal * unethical * uneven * unfavorable * unjust * unjustified * unwarranted * wrong * wrongful

    Antonyms

    * fair * just