| Front | tendentious \ten-DEN-shus\ |
|---|---|
| Back | adjective Biased. ["Tendentious" is one of several words English speakers can choose when they want to suggest that someone has made up his or her mind in advance. You may be partial to "predisposed" or prone to favor "partisan," but whatever your leanings, we're inclined to think you'll benefit from adding "tendentious" to your repertoire. A derivative of the Medieval Latin word "tendentia," meaning "tendency," plus the English suffix "-ious," "tendentious" has been used in English as an adjective for biased attitudes since at least 1900.] "The author's tendentious history of the chemical company glosses over its role in one of the most catastrophic environmental accidents in history." |
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