tendencious
IPA: tˈɛndʌnsiʌs
adjective
- Obsolete spelling of tendentious [Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.]
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Examples of "tendencious" in Sentences
- They are vexed by the teaching implicit in Ibsen's tendencious plays; so am I.
- Accordingly, Feisal sent back tendencious answers; and the correspondence continued brilliantly.
- I have called, or half-called, this book tendencious; but in a certain larger view it is not so.
- These were, indeed, tendencious, if I may Anglicize a very necessary word from the Spanish _tendencioso_.
- Honestly, I have to ask: are you always this tendencious, or is this reserved for occasions when the cult requires an ardent defense?
- Among the contributors of the highly tendencious articles was the well-known historian Dr. Friedjung, who made extensive use of documents supplied him by the Vienna Foreign Office.
- Nor was this degradation inexcusable: Van Gogh was a preacher, and too often his delicious and sensitive works of art are smeared over, to their detriment, with tendencious propaganda.
- INFOBAE from Argentina reports the inaccurate and very tendencious EFE report who takes great care to point out that all meeting points were "en areas pudientes" implying that only rich people showed up.
- The tragic consequence of mass communications has been the dissemination of tendencious knowledge to enslave the minds of mankind, rather than free us to experience our own ignorance until we learn better.
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