tendentious
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ʃəs adjective
having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose: a tendentious novel.
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| having or showing an intentional tendency or bias, esp a controversial one | |
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| tendencious or tendencious | |
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| ten'dentiously or tendencious | |
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| ten'denciously or tendencious | |
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| ten'dentially or tendencious | |
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| ten'dencially or tendencious | |
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| ten'dentiousness or tendencious | |
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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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Example sentences
But this review can only be described as tendentious, biased, and misleading.
Its selection and presentation of evidence is at times searching and at other times tendentious and misleading.
Her broad anthropological and social conclusions, however, can sometimes be tendentious.
Perhaps there should have been more explanation, but the pictures are only tendentious in what they do not show.
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