Associations to the word «Tendentious»
Noun
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Wiktionary
TENDENTIOUS, adjective. Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.
TENDENTIOUS, adjective. Implicitly or explicitly slanted.
Dictionary definition
TENDENTIOUS, adjective. Having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one; "a tendentious account of recent elections"; "distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion".
Wise words
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.