SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
partisan
adjective
Strongly favoring a particular side, group, or cause.
Local English device voice, when available. This is not a recorded dictionary pronunciation.
Strongly favoring a side
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Usage distinction
Return to topPartisan need not mean factually false, but it signals alignment with a side rather than neutral judgment.
CHECK THE MEANING IN CONTEXT
See partisan in use
The moderator asked for a less partisan account of the disagreement.
A fictional civic association planned a nonpartisan candidate forum that would not endorse or favor a political party. Some volunteers held strong partisan commitments, so the organizer asked them to apply the same announced procedures to every invited participant.
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