[ US /ˌpɑɹʃiˈæɫəti/ ]
[ UK /pˌɑːʃɪˈælɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives
  2. a predisposition to like something
    she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less
    he had a fondness for whiskey
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How To Use partiality In A Sentence

  • The BBC must ensure that due impartiality is preserved in its news programmes.
  • The disgusting partiality shown in the accusations was disrelished, as was the resort that had been had to torture. History of the United States, Volume 1 (of 6)
  • The author, who seems to intend the character of Bonvolio as good, meant perhaps to shew, how the best minds, in a state of faction and discord, are detorted to criminal partiality. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
  • Look there, and tell me, without partiality, which is the handsomest of those two that lie asleep, the young man or the young lady. ' Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights
  • By these means the notion of my partiality took air, and whether Miss Thrale sent him word slily or not I cannot tell, but on the 25th January, 1783, Mr. Crutchley came hither to conjure me not to go to Italy; he had heard such things, he said, and by _means_ next to _miraculous_. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
  • We will draw the conclusions that are required and endure the consequences as the Word of God instructs us, without prejudice and without partiality.
  • President, regarding these appointments; but the verdict of army and people was that _these first_ selections were made with as much judgment and impartiality as the untried state of the army permitted. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
  • The fact that we were dealing with professionals, including RNs, physicians, architects, and designers, did not mean that their behaviors were without bias or partiality.
  • This partiality, monochromatism and bias could have been found in the Slovak press before 1989," he stated. Slovak Spectator
  • Conducive to making ideal moral judgments, there is conceptual clarity, rationality, impartiality, coolness, and reference to a valid moral principle.
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