Near-synonyms: partisan, slanted, partial, prejudiced
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Tendentious
//tɛnˈdɛnʃəs//
Synonyms for "tendentious" (15 found)
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Related words (7)
Adjective(3 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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1 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
32 translations across 23 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- tendensieus adj (tendentious)
Arabic
1 entries- مُغْرِض adj (tendentious)
Bulgarian
2 entries- пристрастен adj (tendentious)
- тенденцио́зен adj (tendentious)
Catalan
1 entries- tendenciós adj (tendentious)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 偏頗的 /偏颇的 adj (tendentious)
- 傾向性的 /倾向性的 adj (tendentious)
- 有偏見的 /有偏见的 adj (tendentious)
Danish
2 entries- tendensiøs adj (tendentious)
- tendentiøs adj (tendentious)
Dutch
1 entries- tendentieus adj (tendentious)
Finnish
1 entries- tarkoitusperäinen adj (tendentious)
French
1 entries- tendancieux adj (tendentious)
Georgian
1 entries- ტენდენციური adj (tendentious)
German
1 entries- tendenziös adj (tendentious)
Italian
1 entries- tendenzioso adj (tendentious)
Japanese
3 entries- 偏向した adj (tendentious)
- 偏向的な adj (tendentious)
- 傾向的な adj (tendentious)
Korean
1 entries- 편향된 adj (tendentious)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- tendensiøs adj (tendentious)
- tendentiøs adj (tendentious)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- tendensiøs adj (tendentious)
- tendentiøs adj (tendentious)
Polish
1 entries- tendencyjny adj (tendentious)
Portuguese
1 entries- tendencioso adj (tendentious)
Russian
1 entries- тенденцио́зный adj (tendentious)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- tȅndenciōzan adj (tendentious)
Slovene
1 entries- tendenciọ̑zen adj (tendentious)
Spanish
1 entries- tendencioso adj (tendentious)
Swedish
2 entries- tendensiös adj (tendentious)
- tendentiös adj (tendentious)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
That he was a supporter of the cause was clear, because his reports from the front were tendentious.
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President-elect Donald Trump abruptly abandoned some of his most tendentious campaign promises Tuesday, saying he does not plan to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email system or the dealings of her family foundation, has an “open mind” about a climate-change accord from which he vowed to withdraw the United States and is no longer certain that torturing terrorism suspects is a good idea.
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It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.
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