| 单词 | tendentious |
| 释义 | tendentious (once / 95318 pages) adj If you are writing a report on climate change and you ignore evidence that the earth is warming, the paper might be called tendentious. Tendentious means promoting a specific, and controversial, point of view. When something is tendentious, it shows a bias towards a particular point of view, especially one that people disagree about. It shares a root with the word, tendency, which means leaning towards acting a certain way. If you have the tendency to talk in a tendentious manner about politics, people might tend to avoid you at parties. WORD FAMILYtendentious: tendentiously, tendentiousness+/tend: tended, tendency, tender, tending, tends/tended: untended/tendency: tendencies, tendencious, tendentious/tender: tendered, tenderer, tenderest, tendering, tenderise, tenderize, tenderized, tenderly, tenderness, tenders/tenderise: tenderisation, tenderised, tenderiser/tenderize: tenderization, tenderizer, tenderizes, tenderizing/tenderizer: tenderizers/tenderness: tendernesses/tending: tendings USAGE EXAMPLESTendentious PolitiFact ratings are a classic genre of bad journalism. Wall Street Journal(Dec 17, 2016) Or it presents a tendentious interpretation of the facts. Washington Post(Dec 12, 2016) WikiLeaks was later accused of tendentious editing, but the clip would be shocking in any guise. The New Yorker(Dec 04, 2016) adj having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one a tendentious account of recent elections distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion Syn tendencious partisan, partizan devoted to a cause or party |
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