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What do you call a person who is favoring someone else

English Language & Usage Asked by TaraNY917 on November 29, 2020

What do you call someone who is favoring someone?
For instance if your employer favors your co-worker over yourself, you would refer to your employer as what?

3 Answers

Nepotism can be used if favoring relatives.

Nepotism: the ​activity of ​unfairly giving good ​jobs or ​advantages to ​members of ​your ​family.
[Cambridge English Dictionary]

Partisan can be used for supporting any person.

Partisan: a strong supporter of a party, cause, or person.
[Dictionary.com]

Answered by Rax on November 29, 2020

Biased may be what you want.

Biased: showing an ​unreasonable ​preference or ​dislike ​based on ​personal ​opinion.
[Cambridge English Dictionary]

Answered by Miles Gillham on November 29, 2020

Favoritism:

1: the showing of special favor : PARTIALITY

2: the state or fact of being a favorite
[Merriam Webster Dictionary]

Answered by James Wirth on November 29, 2020

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