📰 Biased or partial 📐 At an angle

slanted

1 6.2

Showing unfair support for one person or group

adjective
/ˈslæntɪd/

: sesgado

But these textbooks are Eurocentric pap, slanted, racist, and wrong, the cause of self-esteem problems for our young.
so slanted

They were a highly emotional, heavily slanted, heavily biased group of kind of an ignorant mass.

Examples

The article was criticized for being overly slanted in favor of one political party.
So it's all slanted towards like what people saw of him.
I believe the polls may be just as slanted right now.

Blog text (30)
Ours are heavily slanted towards college students.
Derivative content might be funny news, it might be listicles, it might be news slanted to the right or to the left.
Much of this footage is said to have been obtained from a WikiLeaks-like website that specializes in obtaining secret government materials, so the resulting "doc" is extremely slanted.

Blog text (25)
Many viewers feel that the documentary is slanted and fails to present a balanced view.
His speech was clearly slanted, highlighting only the positive aspects of his own achievements.

Synonyms

biased

vsslanted

91 4.0

Showing unfair favor to one person, group, or side

is about presentation that makes something seem partial rather than neutral

one-sided

vsslanted

26 4.0

Not fair because it helps only one person, group, or view

focuses on biased presentation rather than only affecting one side

slanty

vsslanted

8.1

Giving unfair support to one side in a report or argument

is about presenting things with unfair preference rather than neutrality

distortive

vsslanted

7.5

Making results unfair or wrong by changing normal conditions

refers to biased presentation rather than causing factual alteration

Antonyms

fairness

236 1.9

Treating people equally and without bias

impartiality

11 5.3

Treating all people or sides fairly without favoring one

How Biased

propagandistic

Literature

1 8.3

partisan

363 6.7

slanted

1 6.2

biased

91 4.0

neutral

218 3.6

Surface Forms

slanted positive

slanteder comparative

slantest superlative

Morphology

slanted = slant (semi-transparent) = slant + ed

The adjective derives from the verb 'slant' but the 'biased' sense is a metaphorical extension of the physical meaning and may not be obvious to learners who only know the literal sense.

Etymology

The word slanted comes from slant, which means 'to lean' or 'tilt', and a helpful way to remember the biased meaning is to picture a story or report that literally 'leans' toward one side so it favours that side.