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tendentious

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WOTD – 19 February 2016

Etymology

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Fromtendency +‎-ious, afterGermantendenziös.

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Adjective

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tendentious (comparativemoretendentious,superlativemosttendentious)

  1. (of persons or their words) Having atendency, written or spoken, with apartisan,biased orprejudicedpurpose, especially a controversial one;implicitly orexplicitlyslanted;biased.
    Antonyms:objective,impartial,unbiased;fair,balanced
    Near-synonyms:partisan,slanted,partial,prejudiced
    That he was a supporter of the cause was clear, because his reports from the front weretendentious.
    • 2016 November 23, Karen Tumulty, “Trump backs away from some of his strident campaign promises”, inThe Washington Post[1]:
      President-elect Donald Trump abruptly abandoned some of his mosttendentious 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.
    • 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, inRAIL, number944, page37:
      It is a canard trotted out by lazy ortendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.

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