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tendentious

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/tɛnˈdɛnʃəs/ English

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  1. Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.
  2. Implicitly or explicitly slanted.“As a supporter of the cause, his reports were tendentious in the extreme.”

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