Definition of tendentious
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tendentiously
adverb
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Examples of tendentious in a Sentence
He made some extremely tendentious remarks.
Recent Examples of tendentious from the Web
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The magnitude of the coverage loss under both bills is too large to be explained away with any single tendentious argument.
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These are not tendentious or subjective ways to describe Trump’s predicament, but rather inescapable consequences of things Trump has done to expose himself to legal jeopardy and deny his loyalists clean lines of defense against the bad news.
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That historical account would be as self-serving and tendentious, in its own way, as our current glorious one.
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Yet, with Harari’s move from mostly prehistoric cultural history to modern cultural history, even the most complacent reader becomes uneasy encountering historical and empirical claims so coarse, bizarre, or tendentious.
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Tendentious is one of several words English speakers can choose when they want to suggest that someone has made up his or her mind in advance. You may be partial to predisposed or prone to favor partisan, but whatever your leanings, we're inclined to think you'll benefit from adding tendentious to your repertoire. A derivative of the Medieval Latin word tendentia, meaning "tendency," plus the English suffix -ious, tendentious has been used in English as an adjective for biased attitudes since at least 1900.
First Known Use of tendentious
1900
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