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adj. - Having or marked by a strong inclination, especially a controversial one.

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  • But this review can only be described as tendentious, biased, and misleading.
  • These kind of tendentious pronouncements from Iran's president make many in the west uncomfortable.
  • If we didn't already have the word "tendentious" we would have to invent it to describe this article.
  • Israel rejected the inquiry's findings, even before the summary was released, as "tendentious" and "patently biased".
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