TENDENTIOUS

tendentious, tendencious

(adjective) having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one; “a tendentious account of recent elections”; “distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

tendentious (comparative more tendentious, superlative most tendentious)

Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.

Implicitly or explicitly slanted.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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Coffee Trivia

The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.

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