as in bias
an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting especially without considering any other possibilities
the palpable and unrelenting tendentiousness that pervades her every political pronouncement
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tendentiousness
Noun
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However, that isn’t the case, suggesting that there is a gender bias across all industries and backgrounds.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025 -
The most subjective of all the beauty categories, fragrance is incredibly tricky to judge—bound up in biases (not to mention allergies), personal memories, and cultural preferences.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Because even tradition or local can become a prejudice.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Research shows making friends with people who are different from us (especially in certain non-hierarchichal environments) is statistically a very significant way of reducing prejudice.—
Sarah Stein Lubrano,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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While bad tendencies showed up in each loss enough good things seemed to appear in the wins.—
Larry Fleisher,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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That approach stems from a tendency to question the foundations upon which conventional wisdom is built.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Our hearts go out to his family, but this should not have become a springboard for hysteria, partisanship, and meltdown.—
Paul Bedard,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Sep. 2025
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Trust in public institutions, which are meant to facilitate responsiveness, has plunged as partisanship persists.—
Alex Rosado,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Despite its partiality to a president’s power over independent federal agencies, the court has repeatedly suggested that the Fed is an exception.—
Jackie Calmes,
Mercury News,
30 Aug. 2025
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But, actually, partiality is one of the reasons that scenarios are valuable.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
27 May 2025
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“Tendentiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tendentiousness. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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