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biased

 adjective
     
bi‧ased, biassed
1 unfairly preferring one person or group over another:
Of course I'm biased, but I thought my daughter's paintings were the best.
racially biased attitudes
biased against/towards/in favour of
news reporting that was heavily biased towards the government
2 more interested in a particular thing than in another
biased towards
The majority of infants are biased towards being social rather than being antisocial.
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