tendentious en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From tendency + -ious, after German tendenziös.
Meanings
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(of persons or their words) Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.
It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.
2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37: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.
2016 November 23, Karen Tumulty, “Trump backs away from some of his strident campaign promises”, in The Washington Post:Near-synonyms: partisan, slanted, partial, prejudiced
That he was a supporter of the cause was clear, because his reports from the front were tendentious.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most tendentious | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more tendentious | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Antonyms
unbiased · fair · objective · balanced · impartial
Deriveds
tendentiously · tendentiousness · untendentious
Relateds
Synonyms
prejudiced · partial · partisan · slanted
Translations (36)
ja 偏向した (tendentious) · sh tȅndenciōzan (tendentious) · uk з певним ухилом (tendentious) · ja 傾向的な (tendentious) · fr tendancieux (tendentious) · ca tendenciós (tendentious) · sl tendenciọ̑zen (tendentious) · ja 偏向的な (tendentious) · sv tendentiös (tendentious) · fi tarkoitusperäinen (tendentious) · de tendenziös (tendentious) · sv tendensiös (tendentious) · uk упереджений (tendentious) · cmn 有偏見的 /有偏见的 (tendentious) · da tendentiøs (tendentious) · bg пристрастен (tendentious) · nb tendentiøs (tendentious) · nl tendentieus (tendentious) · nn tendensiøs (tendentious) · es tendencioso (tendentious) · uk заангажований (tendentious) · af tendensieus (tendentious) · ko 편향된 (tendentious) · ar مُغْرِض (tendentious) · cmn 傾向性的 /倾向性的 (tendentious) · uk однобокий (tendentious) · pt tendencioso (tendentious) · it tendenzioso (tendentious) · cmn 偏頗的 /偏颇的 (tendentious) · nn tendentiøs (tendentious) · bg тенденцио́зен (tendentious) · ru тенденцио́зный (tendentious) · da tendensiøs (tendentious) · ka ტენდენციური (tendentious) · pl tendencyjny (tendentious) · nb tendensiøs (tendentious)