Tendentious Definition

tendenzhəs
adjective
Advancing a definite point of view; often, specif., biased or slanted.
Tendentious writings.
Webster's New World

Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose.

Wiktionary
As a supporter of the cause, his reports were tendentious in the extreme.
Wiktionary

Origin of Tendentious

  • Ultimately from the Latin tendere / tendō; related to the (English) tendency.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Medieval Latin tendentia a cause tendency

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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