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tendance |
tended to |
tendence |
tendencious |
tendency |
tendentious
| tendentiously
| tendentiousness
| tender
| tender age
| tender loving care
tendentious
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tendentious has 1 sense
- tendentious(s = adj.all) tendencious - having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one; "a tendentious account of recent elections"; "distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion" Derived forms noun tendency1, noun tendentiousness1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tendentious, adj. derog. (of writing etc.) calculated to promote a particular cause or viewpoint; having an underlying purpose.
Derivative
tendentiously adv. tendentiousness n.
Etymology
as TENDENCY + -OUS
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