tendentious

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/tɛnˈdɛnʃəs/

Definition of tendentious

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.
    “Near-synonyms: partisan, slanted, partial, prejudiced”
    “That he was a supporter of the cause was clear, because his reports from the front were tendentious.”
    “President-elect Donald Trump abruptly abandoned some of his most tendentious campaign promises Tuesday, saying he does not plan to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email system or the dealings of her family foundation, has an “open mind” about a climate-change accord from which he vowed to withdraw the United States and is no longer certain that torturing terrorism suspects is a good idea.”
    “It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.”

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Etymology

From tendency + -ious, after German tendenziös.

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