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tendentious

[ ten-den-shuhs ]

adjective

  1. having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose:

    a tendentious novel.



tendentious

/ ɛˈɛʃə /

adjective

  1. having or showing an intentional tendency or bias, esp a controversial one
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ٱˈԳپdzܲ, adverb
  • ٱˈԳپdzܲԱ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ٱ·tdzܲ· adverb
  • ٱ·tdzܲ·Ա noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of tendentious1

1895–1900; < Medieval Latin tendenti ( a ) tendency + -ous
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of tendentious1

C20: from tendency
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Some of the defiant humor about women’s bodies feels tendentious and forced.

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That would be a more appropriate description of the majority report, which advances no “facts” but rests on fabricated and tendentious assumptions.

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Critics, again mostly Republicans, weighed in again with tendentious lectures on social media about the moral imperative of meeting one’s obligation to pay back a loan.

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The words and phrases that the plaintiffs replaced with their own tendentious language are in italics.

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The idea of shoving this tendentious religious tract down Americans’ throats would have been a nonstarter under Roe vs.

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