tendentious
/tɛnˈdɛnʃəs
/adjective
Expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one: a tendentious reading of history...
- The channel is dispensing a view of the world that is tendentious and intellectually idle.
- This is a tendentious, romanticised version of the history.
- It is an effort not to understand but to use history to advance a tendentious agenda.
Derivatives
tendentiously
/ adverb ...- I think the thrust of what they say has been tendentiously distorted.
- He goes on to tendentiously misconstrue most everything Clark said.
- She is neither a moralist nor a tendentiously political artist, although her work is informed by an unmistakably feminist sensibility.
tendentiousness
/ noun ...- He criticizes the proletarian literature of his day for its tendentiousness.
- A brief review of the data is sufficient to demonstrate the tendentiousness of the exercise.
- We'll be saying more about the tendentiousness involved in these arguments.
Origin
Early 20th century: suggested by German tendenziös.