Today's Word "Tendentious"
Published in Vocabulary
tendentious \ten-DEN-shus\ (adjective) - Marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased
"Peter always suspected he was getting a highly tendentious version of the town's notorious family feud from his mother, who worked for one of the families for many years."
"Tendentious" is one of several words English speakers can choose when they want to suggest that someone has made up his or her mind in advance. You may be partial to "predisposed" or prone to favor "partisan," but whatever your leanings, we're inclined to think you'll benefit from adding "tendentious" to your repertoire. A derivative of the Medieval Latin "tendentia," meaning "tendency," plus the English suffix "-ious," "tendentious" has been used in English as an adjective for biased attitudes since at least 1900.
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