Definitions for tendentious

tendentious ten·den·tious

Spelling: [ten-den-shuh s]
IPA: /tɛnˈdɛn ʃəs/

Tendentious is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 621 anagrams from letters in tendentious (deeinnosttu).

Definitions for tendentious

adjective

  1. having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose:

Origin of tendentious

1895-1900; Medieval Latin tendenti(a) tendency + -ous

Examples for tendentious

Munayyer is not un-informed, but his article is tendentious.

Again and again, they delivered bloviating, tendentious monologues and then cut Hagel off when he tried to reply.

"Somewhat misleading and tendentious," the New York Times executive editor, Bill Keller, said about the study.

Bereft of serious arguments, anti-Obama types resort to tendentious claims about symbolic slights.

The position in Ethiopia is, to say the least of it, tendentious, and at any moment the natives may change their skin.

Oh, at this distance almost any answer is likely to be tendentious.

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