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Tendentious

//tɛnˈdɛnʃəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.

    "Near-synonyms: partisan, slanted, partial, prejudiced"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one wordnet

Etymology

From tendency + -ious, after German tendenziös.

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