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Definition of tendentious in English: tendentiousadjective tɛnˈdɛnʃəstɛnˈdɛnʃəs Expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one. 有偏见的，倾向性的；表达有争议观点的 a tendentious reading of history 带偏见地读史。 Example sentencesExamples - This is just sloppy tendentious journalism.
- His realism could involve a fair amount of tendentious editing, glib generalisation and manipulation of the evidence.
- The investigation was prejudiced and tendentious.
- Some of his criticisms do seem a mite tendentious.
- The statistics quoted are highly selective and tendentious.
- The scriptwriter must fashion this already tendentious material into watchable drama.
- It is a highly tendentious, obviously partisan and unreliable document.
- Some of his examples are tendentious but he is broadly right.
- It is an effort not to understand but to use history to advance a tendentious agenda.
- Government advertising campaigns should be objective and explanatory, not tendentious or party political.
- Some liberal arguments about the significance of this case seem tendentious and overblown.
- The channel is dispensing a view of the world that is tendentious and intellectually idle.
- The author's choice of this phrase was clearly tendentious.
- The book is tendentious and unconvincing but well-written.
- The version is not itself a lie, but it is a relentlessly tendentious interpretation.
- This argument mixes so many distortions, falsehoods and tendentious points that it's not easy to know where to start.
- His use of evidence was tendentious and manipulative.
- This is a tendentious, romanticised version of the history.
- This intensive and tendentious coverage made it obvious that some satellite channels were pursuing agendas of their own.
- They make some good points, some misleading points, and a few rather tendentious points.
Synonyms contentious, disputed, contended, at issue, moot, disputable, debatable, arguable, vexed, open to discussion, open to question, under discussion
Derivativesadverb tɛnˈdɛnʃəslitɛnˈdɛnʃəsli She is neither a moralist nor a tendentiously political artist, although her work is informed by an unmistakably feminist sensibility. Example sentencesExamples - I think the thrust of what they say has been tendentiously distorted.
- He goes on to tendentiously misconstrue most everything Clark said.
- The examples are often used tendentiously.
- I'll reformulate this less tendentiously.
nountɛnˈdɛnʃəsnəstɛnˈdɛnʃəsnəs We'll be saying more about the tendentiousness involved in these arguments. Example sentencesExamples - He criticizes the proletarian literature of his day for its tendentiousness.
- The tendentiousness of the writing seems to conceal some deeper agenda.
- His books are model monographs, daunting in their research and free of tendentiousness.
- A brief review of the data is sufficient to demonstrate the tendentiousness of the exercise.
OriginEarly 20th century: suggested by German tendenziös. Rhymesconscientious, contentious, licentious, pretentious, sententious Definition of tendentious in US English: tendentiousadjectivetenˈdenSHəstɛnˈdɛnʃəs Expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one. 有偏见的，倾向性的；表达有争议观点的 a tendentious reading of history 带偏见地读史。 Example sentencesExamples - The book is tendentious and unconvincing but well-written.
- The investigation was prejudiced and tendentious.
- The version is not itself a lie, but it is a relentlessly tendentious interpretation.
- It is a highly tendentious, obviously partisan and unreliable document.
- Some of his examples are tendentious but he is broadly right.
- The channel is dispensing a view of the world that is tendentious and intellectually idle.
- This intensive and tendentious coverage made it obvious that some satellite channels were pursuing agendas of their own.
- His realism could involve a fair amount of tendentious editing, glib generalisation and manipulation of the evidence.
- The author's choice of this phrase was clearly tendentious.
- This is a tendentious, romanticised version of the history.
- His use of evidence was tendentious and manipulative.
- It is an effort not to understand but to use history to advance a tendentious agenda.
- The scriptwriter must fashion this already tendentious material into watchable drama.
- This is just sloppy tendentious journalism.
- Some liberal arguments about the significance of this case seem tendentious and overblown.
- This argument mixes so many distortions, falsehoods and tendentious points that it's not easy to know where to start.
- Some of his criticisms do seem a mite tendentious.
- The statistics quoted are highly selective and tendentious.
- They make some good points, some misleading points, and a few rather tendentious points.
- Government advertising campaigns should be objective and explanatory, not tendentious or party political.
Synonyms contentious, disputed, contended, at issue, moot, disputable, debatable, arguable, vexed, open to discussion, open to question, under discussion
OriginEarly 20th century: suggested by German tendenziös. |