prejudicially

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A bias occurs when you prejudicially favor one person, place, thing, or idea over another.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Schwartz provides a very balanced examination of Kissinger’s intellectual and political trajectory, neither prejudicially critical nor too laudatory: a solid middle ground between the numerous “war criminal” condemnations and the many “SuperK” hagiographies.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2020

It also has a more metaphorical meaning as a phrase indicating that its speaker is stubbornly and perhaps prejudicially unwilling to deal with inevitable changes to a world that he/she no longer feels comfortable in.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2018

Until that time, I had been doubly primed to hate L.A.—I lived in New York and grew up in Northern California, two regions prejudicially disposed against the city.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2014

In this case, however, the parent's health will chiefly suffer, if she persevere in nursing; this, however, will again act prejudicially to the child.

From The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease by Bull, Thomas