Tendentious

Quick meaning: Tendentious is an adjective meaning (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.

Meaning

(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.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: partisan, slanted, partial, prejudiced

That he was a supporter of the cause was clear, because his reports from the front were tendentious.

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

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.

Synonyms for tendentious

Depending on context, synonyms include partisan, slanted, partial, prejudiced, partizan, tendencious.

Antonyms for tendentious

Common opposites include objective, impartial, fair, balanced.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tendencious, partizan, partisan, biased, prejudicial, misleading.

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