Tendentious vs Controversial - What's the difference?
tendentious | controversial |
Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.
Implicitly or explicitly slanted.
Arousing controversy—a debate or discussion of opposing opinions.
* (rfdate) Macaulay:
As adjectives the difference between tendentious and controversial
is that tendentious is having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one while controversial is arousing controversy—a debate or discussion of opposing opinions.tendentious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- As a supporter of the cause, his reports were tendentious in the extreme.
controversial
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Whole libraries of controversial books.