tendentious
/tɛnˈdɛnʃəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.98 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: partisan, slanted, partial, prejudiced"
- "That he was a supporter of the cause was clear, because his reports from the front were tendentious."
- "President-elect Donald Trump abruptly abandoned some of his most tendentious 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."
- "It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair."
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Inflected Forms
more tendentious (comparative)
most tendentious (superlative)