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tendentious

[ten-den-shuh

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adjective

having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose: a tendentious novel.

Also, ten·den·cious, ten·den·tial

[ten-den-shuh

l] .

Origin:
1895–1900; < Medieval Latin tendenti(a) tendency + -ous

Related forms

ten·den·tious·ly, adverb

ten·den·tious·ness, noun

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Example Sentences

The continuing effort to conflate accusations, both false and true, is tendentious.

But, to his tendentious critics, none of that matters.

Yet the department's tendentious methods are open to challenge.

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The continuing effort to conflate accusations, both false and true, is tendentious.

But, to his tendentious critics, none of that matters.

Yet the department's tendentious methods are open to challenge.

The article seems a little chauvinistic and tendentious to me.

And wow, are some of the intelcrats' talking points tendentious.

Several continued to work much later and do more than paint, but this is a tendentious affair, plausibly so.

Tear down the pulpy pile of farragoes and tendentious epigones.

Both, alas, soon gave in to tendentious theorising of their own.

The use of the word implies a tendentious distinction.

The books are, indeed, often tendentious and extreme.

The last three paragraphs are best described as collection of tendentious gibberish.

Several of them continued to work much later and do more than paint, but this is a tendentious affair, plausibly so.

Rudd's lecture is mostly tendentious silliness, which is no surprise.

It's a tendentious hour, but not an implausible one.

My main reservation is the tendentious nature of the editor's own role.

Unfortunately, it is largely concealed by a tendentious pink sculpture of a lamb and a sphere, fastened to its back.

He is rarely subtle, often impolite, frequently tendentious and sometimes self-contradictory.

Kurlansky has written a timely and tendentious book, almost as provocative for what it excludes as for the territory it covers.

Petraeus didn't say too much about the drone campaign, and it would be tendentious to read too much into those remarks.

He can be obnoxious, tendentious and maddeningly self-contradictory.

The immediate result was perhaps the earliest recorded whinges from journalists about being bombarded with tendentious bumf.

Of course, these videos can themselves be polemical, and people use them to advance all kinds of tendentious theories.

Although the television camera can also be made to lie by tendentious selection and manipulative.

It's less the tendentious didacticism than the comic, mythological vision that makes it compelling.

Yoo repeatedly berates in this tendentious book for.

Some of these lawyers had embraced tendentious legal theories.

Fish poses the global warming question in a tendentious way.

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World English Dictionary

tendentious or tendencious (tɛnˈdɛnʃəs)

—*adj*
	having or showing an intentional tendency or bias, esp a controversial one

[C20: from tendency]

tendencious or tendencious

—*adj*

[C20: from tendency]

ten'dentiously or tendencious

—*adv*

ten'denciously or tendencious

—*adv*

ten'dentially or tendencious

—*adv*

ten'dencially or tendencious

—*adv*

ten'dentiousness or tendencious

—n

ten'denciousness or tendencious

—n

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Word Origin & History

tendentious

1900, formed after or from Ger. tendenziös, from tendenz, from M.L. tendentia (see tendency).

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