partiality
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"There is no evidence of bad faith, malice, corruption, fraud, partiality, or any want of integrity on the part of Referee Mark Lyson," the commission added.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
For that reason, they are expected to avoid public statements displaying partiality because such statements undermine public trust in the legal system.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
Ms. Soderstrom faced removal from the bench for gross neglect of duty, gross partiality in office and other judicial conduct prohibited by the state’s Constitution.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
Thus, judicial remarks during the course of a trial that are critical or disapproving of, or even hostile to, counsel, the parties, or their cases, ordinarily do not support a bias or partiality challenge.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2023
Miss Bennet’s astonishment was soon lessened by the strong sisterly partiality which made any admiration of Elizabeth appear perfectly natural; and all surprise was shortly lost in other feelings.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Out of all the bizarre vampire partialities presented as humdrum on "What We Do In the Shadows," the Staten Island housemates' unconventional, looser approach to intimacy is distinctive if not singular.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2023
They inevitably involve "animosities, partialities, influence and interest."
From Time Magazine Archive
Can he prove that worms, insects, zoophytes, that possess only what is called a ganglionic system, are strangers to instinctive fears and partialities?
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
The mythical or mythmaking language of mankind had no partialities; and if the career of the Sun occupies a large extent of the horizon, we cannot fairly simulate ignorance of the cause.
There was no hysterical railing about the partialities of men for men in the administering of law and the interpretation of the rights of citizenship.
From The Co-Citizens by Corra Harris
Vocabulary lists containing partiality
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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