TENDENTIOUS meaning: Biased to promote a viewpoint

We found 25 dictionaries that define the word tendentious:

General (22 matching dictionaries)

tendentious: Merriam-Webster.com
tendentious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
tendentious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
tendentious: Collins English Dictionary
tendentious: Vocabulary.com
Tendentious, tendentious: Wordnik
tendentious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
tendentious: Wiktionary
tendentious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
tendentious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
tendentious: Infoplease Dictionary
tendentious: Dictionary.com
Tendentious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
tendentious: Rhymezone
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tendentious: Free Dictionary
tendentious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
tendentious: Mnemonic Dictionary
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tendentious: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

tendentious: A Word A Day
tendentious: Wordcraft Dictionary

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▸ adjective: Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.
▸ adjective: Implicitly or explicitly slanted.

Opposite:

objective, unbiased, impartial

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