Definition of tendentious
disapproving
: marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased
Radio and television in South Africa are effectively state-owned. … News reporting is selective and tendentious, customarily presenting only the government's view of events, and attacking or ignoring its opponents.— William Finnegan YouTube-style montages and mash-ups have been an excellent tool for seeing and showing how rhetoric takes shape. Of course, these videos can themselves be polemical, and people use them to advance all kinds of tendentious theories.— Virginia Heffernan
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The first known use of tendentious was in 1874
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