tendentious

From tendency +‎ -ious, after German tendenziös.

• IPA^(key): /tɛnˈdɛnʃəs/

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tendentious (comparative more tendentious, superlative most tendentious)

1. Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.
   • 2016 November 23, Karen Tumulty, “Trump backs away from some of his strident campaign promises”, in The Washington Post‎:

     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.

   • 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37:

     It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.

2. Implicitly or explicitly slanted.

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

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• “tendentious”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.