tendentious

Adjective

ten=den=tious

WORDNET DICTIONARY

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

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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