sesgado

Spanish

Etymology

Past participle of sesgar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sesˈɡado/ [sezˈɣ̞a.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: ses‧ga‧do

Adjective

sesgado (feminine sesgada, masculine plural sesgados, feminine plural sesgadas)

1. slanted
2. biased
   • 2018 September 26, Jesús Ruiz Mantilla, Javier Gil, “Luces y sombras en Lavapiés”, in El País‎^[1]:

     En el fondo, los barrios cool generan representaciones sesgadas de la ciudad y en última instancia invisibilizan que se trata de zonas que sufren fuertes procesos de segregación y desigualdad urbana.

     In the end, cool neighborhoods generate biased representations of the city and ultimately hide the fact that these areas suffer from powerful forces of segregation and urban inequality.

3. tranquil

Participle

sesgado (feminine sesgada, masculine plural sesgados, feminine plural sesgadas)

1. past participle of sesgar

Further reading

• “sesgado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10