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a personal preference — especially a prejudice that prevents objective consideration
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any tendency to move in a particular direction — such as a car that tends to want to swerve toward the right
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any tendency to move in a particular direction — such as a car that tends to want to swerve toward the right
- If you could be supposed to be biased in any respect by your own feelings, your opinion would not be worth having.Chapter 24 (74% in)
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- Mrs. Dashwood would have interrupted her instantly with soothing tenderness, had not Elinor, who really wished to hear her sister's unbiased opinion, by an eager sign, engaged her silence.Chapter 47 (13% in)
- His temper might perhaps be a little soured by finding, like many others of his sex, that through some unaccountable bias in favour of beauty, he was the husband of a very silly woman,—but she knew that this kind of blunder was too common for any sensible man to be lastingly hurt by it.Chapter 20 (35% in)
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