tendentious
adj/tɛnˈdɛnʃəs/
Etymology From tendency + -ious, after German tendenziös.
1
Of persons or their words Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.
- Near-synonyms: partisan, slanted, partial, prejudiced
- That he was a supporter of the cause was clear, because his reports from the front were tendentious.
2 more examples
- 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.2016 November 23, Karen Tumulty, “Trump backs away from some of his strident campaign promises”, in The Washington Post:
- It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37:
- Derived terms
- tendentiously, tendentiousness, untendentious
- Related terms
- tendency