Insinuation vs Tendentious - What's the difference?
insinuation | tendentious |
The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in.
The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; — formerly used in a good sense, as of friendly influence or interposition.
The art or power of gaining good will by a prepossessing manner.
That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion, innuendo or intimation by distant allusion
* slander may be conveyed by insinuations .
Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.
Implicitly or explicitly slanted.
As a noun insinuation
is the act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in.As an adjective tendentious is
having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.insinuation
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* * ----tendentious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- As a supporter of the cause, his reports were tendentious in the extreme.