"tendentious" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /tɛnˈdɛnʃəs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tendentious.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-tendentious.wav [US] Forms: more tendentious [comparative], most tendentious [superlative]
Etymology: From tendency + -ious, after German tendenziös. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|tendency|-ious}} tendency + -ious, {{der|en|de|tendenziös}} German tendenziös Head templates: {{en-adj}} tendentious (comparative more tendentious, superlative most tendentious)
  1. Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.
    Sense id: en-tendentious-en-adj-uQ6u6dZl
  2. Implicitly or explicitly slanted.
    Sense id: en-tendentious-en-adj-X6LwbnEr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ious Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 81 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ious: 15 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: tendentiously, tendentiousness Related terms: tendency Translations (tendentious): tendensieus (Afrikaans), مُغْرِض (muḡriḍ) (Arabic), тенденцио́зен (tendenciózen) (Bulgarian), пристрастен (pristrasten) (Bulgarian), tendenciós (Catalan), 偏頗的 (Chinese Mandarin), 偏颇的 (Chinese Mandarin), 有偏見的 (Chinese Mandarin), 有偏见的 (Chinese Mandarin), 傾向性的 (Chinese Mandarin), 倾向性的 (Chinese Mandarin), tendentiøs (Danish), tendensiøs (Danish), tendentieus (Dutch), tarkoitusperäinen (Finnish), tendancieux (French), ტენდენციური (ṭendenciuri) (Georgian), tendenziös (German), tendenzioso (Italian), 偏向した (henkou shita) (Japanese), 偏向的な (henkouteki na) (Japanese), 傾向的な (keikouteki na) (Japanese), 편향된 (pyeonhyangdoen) (Korean), tendensiøs (Norwegian Bokmål), tendentiøs (Norwegian Bokmål), tendensiøs (Norwegian Nynorsk), tendentiøs (Norwegian Nynorsk), tendencyjny (Polish), tendencioso (Portuguese), тенденцио́зный (tɛndɛncióznyj) (Russian), tȅndenciōzan (Serbo-Croatian), tendenciọ̑zen (Slovene), tendencioso (Spanish), tendentiös (Swedish), tendensiös (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'tendentious': 0 0

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      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "tendentious",
      "word": "tendentiøs"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "tendentious",
      "word": "tendencyjny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "tendentious",
      "word": "tendencioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tɛndɛncióznyj",
      "sense": "tendentious",
      "word": "тенденцио́зный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "tendentious",
      "word": "tȅndenciōzan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "tendentious",
      "word": "tendenciọ̑zen"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "tendentious",
      "word": "tendencioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "tendentious",
      "word": "tendentiös"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "tendentious",
      "word": "tendensiös"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tendentious"
}

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