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  • adjective Common misspelling of tendentious.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one

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Examples

  • 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.

    Can Obama Change the Climate? McKibben, Bill 2009

  • Honestly, I have to ask: are you always this tendencious, or is this reserved for occasions when the cult requires an ardent defense?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Against Climate McCarthyism, Part Deux 2009

  • 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.

    11/19/2006 - 11/26/2006 2006

  • 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.

    Avalancha Tricolor: the photo report of Venezuela's biggest meeting ever 2006

  • Accordingly, Feisal sent back tendencious answers; and the correspondence continued brilliantly.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • 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.

    Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

  • They are vexed by the teaching implicit in Ibsen's tendencious plays; so am I.

    Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

  • 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.

    The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906

  • I have called, or half-called, this book tendencious; but in a certain larger view it is not so.

    Dona Perfecta Benito P��rez Gald��s 1881

  • These were, indeed, tendencious, if I may Anglicize a very necessary word from the Spanish _tendencioso_.

    Dona Perfecta Benito P��rez Gald��s 1881

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