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語源

From tendency +‎ -ious, after German tendenziös.

発音

• IPA: /tɛnˈdɛnʃəs/

形容詞

tendentious (comparative more tendentious, superlative most tendentious)

1. (of persons or their words) Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.

   Antonyms: objective, impartial, unbiased; fair, balanced

   Near-synonyms: partisan, slanted, partial, prejudiced

   That he was a supporter of the cause was clear, because his reports from the front were tendentious.

   • 2016 November 23, Karen Tumulty, “Trump backs away from some of his strident campaign promises”, in The Washington Post‎:

     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.

   • 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37:

     It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.

派生語

関連する語

• tendency

参照

• “tendentious”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.