biased

(also biassed)

/ˈbaɪəst/ adjective

Definition

› preferring or disliking someone or something more than someone or something else, in a way that means that they are treated unfairly: biased against sb/sth He believes the American justice system is biased against blacks.biased in favour of sb/sth They claimed that the settlement was biased in favour of corporate clients.

› giving results that are not accurate because information has not been collected correctly: A biased sample of interviewees has a set of characteristics that are different from those of the population as a whole. → Compare unbiased

(Definition of biased adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)