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Insinuative vs Tendentious - What's the difference?

insinuative | tendentious |

As adjectives the difference between insinuative and tendentious

is that insinuative is tending to insinuate; insinuating while tendentious is having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.

insinuative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to insinuate; insinuating

    • tendentious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.
  • Implicitly or explicitly slanted.
    • As a supporter of the cause, his reports were tendentious in the extreme.

    Related terms

    * tendency