tendentious

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.

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tendentious more tendentious most tendentious

From tendency + -ious, after German tendenziös.

partisan slanted partial prejudiced

objective impartial unbiased fair balanced

tendency

tendentiously tendentiousness

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