tendentiously
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9.9
- adverb
- /tɛnˈdɛnʃəsli/
- Formal
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tendenciosamente
- As was the case in his use of documents, his statistics were tendentiously manipulated.
Examples
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He wrote the article tendentiously, aiming to persuade readers to adopt his stance.
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What you want to do is understand the world realistically, but not tendentiously, that is to say, not from an open point of view.
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But even if we focus on the ideal, our description of "the philosopher" is still likely to be tendentiously narrow, for there is more than one ideal.
Academic text (2011) -
It is also argued tendentiously that students have no interests that coincide with those of other residents.
Blog text (7) -
I wrote what I saw in full knowledge that other people's accounts might be different from mine, and with certainty that some people would interpret whatever I wrote tendentiously in service of their own preconceptions.
Blog text (6) -
The question is simply how far, even if morally worthless, they deserve political protection, or whether they do at all; or to put it more tendentiously, whether they should be defeasible under pressure from weightier considerations.
Academic text (1999) -
The cornerstone of the investigation is a detailed questionnaire which can be—and usually is—carefully and tendentiously crafted to achieve a preconceived policy goal: to protect domestic industry and preserve jobs.
Academic text (1993) -
The report presented the data tendentiously, favoring one viewpoint over others.
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Her arguments were tendentiously skewed, making it difficult to see the full picture.
Synonyms
In a way that unfairly supports one side
In a way that tries to make people accept one sided ideas
By trying to gain support using people's strong feelings and unfair beliefs instead of reason
In a way that favors one side
Antonyms
How Biased
Surface Forms
Morphology
tendentiously = tendentious (semi-transparent) = tendent + ly
The adverb is formed by the regular addition of -ly to the adjective 'tendentious', a standard and transparent process.
Etymology
Tendentiously comes from the root tend, from Latin tendere meaning 'to stretch' or 'to aim', and the same idea is in tendency, which means a 'leaning' toward something. So to act tendentiously is to show a clear 'lean' or to favor one side.