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say it: ten-DEN-shuhs
tendentious is an adjective meaning "having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one". It is pronounced /ˌtɛnˈdɛnʃəs/ — ten-DEN-shuhs. It carries one recorded sense.
having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one
“a tendentious account of recent elections”
“distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tendentious come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.