| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. An inclination to something: bent, cast, disposition, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, squint, tendency, trend, turn. See APPROACH, LIKE. 2. An inclination for or against that inhibits impartial judgment: one-sidedness, partiality, partisanship, prejudice, prepossession, tendentiousness. See AFFECT, LIKE, STRAIGHT. | | VERB: | 1. To cause to have a prejudiced view: jaundice, prejudice, prepossess, warp. See AFFECT, STRAIGHT. 2. To direct (material) to the interests of a particular group: skew, slant. Informal : angle2. See STRAIGHT. | | ADJECTIVE: | Angled at a slant: beveled, biased, diagonal, oblique, slanted, slanting. See STRAIGHT.
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