tendentious
[ten-den-shuh s]
- having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose: a tendentious novel.
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Also ten·den·cious, ten·den·tial [ten-den-shuh l] /tɛnˈdɛn ʃəl/.
Origin of tendentious
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Contemporary Examples
Oh, at this distance almost any answer is likely to be tendentious.
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Munayyer is not un-informed, but his article is tendentious.
Again and again, they delivered bloviating, tendentious monologues and then cut Hagel off when he tried to reply.
Bereft of serious arguments, anti-Obama types resort to tendentious claims about symbolic slights.
"Somewhat misleading and tendentious," the New York Times executive editor, Bill Keller, said about the study.
Historical Examples
The position in Ethiopia is, to say the least of it, tendentious, and at any moment the natives may change their skin.
tendentious
tendencious
- having or showing an intentional tendency or bias, esp a controversial one
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Word Origin
C20: from tendency
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Word Origin and History for tendentious
adj.
1900, formed after or from German tendenziös, from tendenz, from Medieval Latin tendentia (see tendency).
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