Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by or favoring a particular point of view; partisan.
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- adjective Having a
tendency ; written or spoken with apartisan ,biased orprejudiced purpose . - adjective
Implicitly orexplicitly slanted .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one
Etymologies
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Examples
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Engage in tendentious misinterpretation of said piece.
Matthew Yglesias » Staggeringly Off-the-Mark Forecasts of European Economic Preeminence 2010
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But then you delight in tendentious bullshit now don’t you Matty, just like your Obambi.
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Finally, while this isn’t an objection specific to this line of argument, it’s worth saying one more time how obnoxious and tendentious is all this talk about the supposed rights of “foreign terrorists.”
I Take Requests 2008
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Calio recalls a tendentious debate in the Roosevelt Room over steel tariffs.
THE ROAD TO RESOLVE 2008
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This opinion was roundly (but not uniformly) criticized as being an extremely tendentious, that is to say, mistaken, reading of the relevant statutes -- but obviously, Jackson was comfortable that it was within the bounds of what the legal culture would allow, even if he did not think that it represented the "best" legal answer to the important question that was posed to him.
Balkinization 2006
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Calio recalls a tendentious debate in the Roosevelt Room over steel tariffs.
Archive 2004-08-01 2004
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But this review can only be described as tendentious, biased, and misleading.
The Jews and the Revolution Schapiro, Leonard 1967
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This kind of tendentious whimsy is more peculiar than interesting; as the pages turn, one becomes inured to it and begins to yawn.
Archive 2007-09-01 GayandRight 2007
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These kind of tendentious pronouncements from Iran's president make many in the west uncomfortable.
Collision Course: The United States and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran 2006
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In any event, for all our disagreement, I certainly welcome Professor Mazlish's use of the word "tendentious"; I did indeed have what Webster's dictionary calls a "reformatory intent," along with a definite viewpoint to express, and I made clear that position to the best of my ability.
An Exchange on Psychohistory Mazlish, Bruce 1973
sarastani commented on the word tendentious
Reading this word at least 20 times in a 23 page journal article makes me wonder if there is a good synonymn or two that could have been used in its place.
December 6, 2006
tutak.com commented on the word tendentious
I find your comment tendentious :-)
December 15, 2006
bilby commented on the word tendentious
I just randomed and got this :-7
July 20, 2008
rolig commented on the word tendentious
look at Weirdnet's second definition: how is it that a dictionary (of sorts) spells "partizan" Titoesquely with a "z" and simultaneously contrasts it with "nonpartisan"? I miss humans.
July 20, 2008
bilby commented on the word tendentious
You're fudging rollie. Are you partizan or non-partisan? Or bi-partiszan?
July 20, 2008
rolig commented on the word tendentious
I'm no fudger. I'm partisan for partisan, when speaking in English of course. But you, dear Bilby, are nonpareil!
July 20, 2008
bilby commented on the word tendentious
:-) Wait, I think I always wanted a pareil. Isn't it one of those frilly sun-umbrellas?
July 20, 2008
rolig commented on the word tendentious
aren't you thinking of a parasol?
July 21, 2008
reesetee commented on the word tendentious
Nonpareils? Yum!
July 28, 2008