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Merriam Webster's Word of the Day

The Word of the Day for January 13 is:

tendentious • \ten-DEN-shus\ • adjective : marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased

Example sentence:I always suspected I was getting a highly tendentious version of the town's notorious family feud from my mother, who worked for one of the families for many years.

Did you know?"Tendentious" is one of several words English speakers can choose when they want to suggest that someone has made up his or her mind in advance. You may be partial to "predisposed" or prone to favor "partisan," but whatever your leanings, we're inclined to think you'll benefit from adding "tendentious" to your repertoire. A derivative of the Medieval Latin "tendentia," meaning "tendency," plus the English suffix "-ious," "tendentious" has been used in English as an adjective for biased attitudes since at least 1900.

posted by driller. @ 8:53 PM