The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - biasn.

1) prejudice, partiality; inclination, leaning, bent, disposition, propensity, tendency, predilection, predisposition, proclivity: She shows a marked bias in favour of the Irish. 2) angle, slant, diagonal: Cut the fabric on the bias. 3) influence, impulse, weight: If he is under any bias, it is on the side of fairness. --v. 4) influence, affect unduly or unfairly, sway, incline, prejudice, colour, taint, predispose: Artists are seldom good critics of art because they have been biased.