tendentious

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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.