tendentious

adjective

ten·den·tious ten-ˈden(t)-shəs How to pronounce tendentious (audio)

disapproving

: marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased

Radio and television in South Africa are effectively state-owned. … News reporting is selective and tendentious, customarily presenting only the government's view of events, and attacking or ignoring its opponents.

William Finnegan

YouTube-style montages and mash-ups have been an excellent tool for seeing and showing how rhetoric takes shape. Of course, these videos can themselves be polemical, and people use them to advance all kinds of tendentious theories.

Virginia Heffernan

tendentiously adverb

tendentiousness noun

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Tendentious is one of several words English speakers can choose when they want to suggest that someone has made up his or her mind in advance. You may be partial to predisposed or prone to favor partisan, but whatever your leanings, we're inclined to think you'll benefit from adding tendentious to your repertoire. A derivative of the Medieval Latin word tendentia, meaning "tendency," plus the English suffix -ious, tendentious has been used in English as an adjective for biased attitudes since at least the end of the 19th century.

Example Sentences

He made some extremely tendentious remarks.

Recent Examples on the Web For these reasons, efforts to explain the attack on Rushdie in the relatively trivial terms of the culture wars are at best tendentious, at worst a harmful distraction from the real threat.

Aaron R. Hanlon, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2022 After the Court overturned Roe v. Wade, your social-media feed might have included any number of tendentious PSAs.

Charles Hilu, National Review, 3 July 2022 On that basis, a competent statistician might expect the distributions of cogent and tendentious letter-writers to the The New York Review of Books to be bell-shaped.

Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2022 And liberals applauded President Biden’s recent decision to sic his Justice Department on parents who dare to speak out against racially tendentious education policies and scientifically suspect Covid protocols at school board meetings.

Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021 As Mark Joseph Stern writes at Slate, the reasoning was ridiculous and tendentious.

Ryan Cooper, The Week, 17 Jan. 2022 Polls can have their own politics, and media polls are often accused of being tendentious.

Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021 This is clearly a tendentious, after-the-fact argument.

Rich Lowry, National Review, 16 Nov. 2021 Such is the hazard of working a beat on which Fox News alternates among tendentious falsehoods, outright lunacy and hateful, racist content.

Washington Post, 19 July 2021 See More

单词	tendentiousness
释义	tendentious adjective ten·den·tious ten-ˈden(t)-shəs disapproving : marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased Radio and television in South Africa are effectively state-owned. … News reporting is selective and tendentious, customarily presenting only the government's view of events, and attacking or ignoring its opponents. William Finnegan YouTube-style montages and mash-ups have been an excellent tool for seeing and showing how rhetoric takes shape. Of course, these videos can themselves be polemical, and people use them to advance all kinds of tendentious theories. Virginia Heffernan tendentiously adverb tendentiousness noun Did you know? Tendentious is one of several words English speakers can choose when they want to suggest that someone has made up his or her mind in advance. You may be partial to predisposed or prone to favor partisan, but whatever your leanings, we're inclined to think you'll benefit from adding tendentious to your repertoire. A derivative of the Medieval Latin word tendentia, meaning "tendency," plus the English suffix -ious, tendentious has been used in English as an adjective for biased attitudes since at least the end of the 19th century. Example Sentences He made some extremely tendentious remarks. Recent Examples on the Web For these reasons, efforts to explain the attack on Rushdie in the relatively trivial terms of the culture wars are at best tendentious, at worst a harmful distraction from the real threat. Aaron R. Hanlon, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2022 After the Court overturned Roe v. Wade, your social-media feed might have included any number of tendentious PSAs. Charles Hilu, National Review, 3 July 2022 On that basis, a competent statistician might expect the distributions of cogent and tendentious letter-writers to the The New York Review of Books to be bell-shaped. Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2022 And liberals applauded President Biden’s recent decision to sic his Justice Department on parents who dare to speak out against racially tendentious education policies and scientifically suspect Covid protocols at school board meetings. Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021 As Mark Joseph Stern writes at Slate, the reasoning was ridiculous and tendentious. Ryan Cooper, The Week, 17 Jan. 2022 Polls can have their own politics, and media polls are often accused of being tendentious. Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021 This is clearly a tendentious, after-the-fact argument. Rich Lowry, National Review, 16 Nov. 2021 Such is the hazard of working a beat on which Fox News alternates among tendentious falsehoods, outright lunacy and hateful, racist content. Washington Post, 19 July 2021 See More Word History Etymology tendenti- (taken as Latinate stem of tendency) + -ous, probably after German tendeziös First Known Use 1874, in the meaning defined above tendentiousness noun as in bias an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting especially without considering any other possibilities the palpable and unrelenting tendentiousness that pervades her every political pronouncement Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance bias prejudice partisanship tendency one-sidedness partiality chauvinism ply parti pris nonobjectivity favoritism cronyism nepotism favor predilection proclivity predisposition inclination penchant prejudgment propensity prepossession bent preconception leaning self-opinionatedness self-partiality Antonyms & Near Antonyms objectivity neutrality impartiality indifference unbiasedness detachment distaste open-mindedness dispassion dislike hate calm aversion scunner See More
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tendentious

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