Complete Definition of "tendentious"

English

Adjective
en-adj

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

#: ''She tendentiously espoused her particular solution at every opportunity.

  1. implicitly or explicitly slanted

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

Translations
trans-top|biased opinion
French: tendencieux m, tendencieuse f
trans-mid
trans-bottom

trans-top|slanted
French: tendencieux m, tendencieuse f
trans-mid
trans-bottom

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