tendentious
promoting a particular cause or viewpoint in a biased way
Word origin: From Latin tendere, to stretch or aim.
Tendentious in a sentence
Here are example sentences showing tendentious in a sentence.
The documentary was so tendentious that it omitted every fact inconvenient to its thesis.
Critics faulted the documentary as tendentious, noting that it omitted every fact unfavorable to its thesis.
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Because the evidence linking the additive to the illness remained blank, regulators declined to issue a ban and instead called for further study.
Using “tendentious” well
Tendentious means promoting a particular cause or viewpoint in a biased way, with a negative connotation of slanted argument. It is the opposite of impartial or objective.
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understood or implied without being openly stated
habitually reserved and uncommunicative in speech
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perceptible by touch or concrete enough to be grasped
to twist together into a confused or knotted mass
equivalent in effect or value to something else
to dull or damage the luster, reputation, or purity of something
needlessly repeating an idea using different words
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