October 09, 2010Word of the Day
TENDENTIOUS \ten-DEN-shus\DEFINITIONadjective

: marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased
EXAMPLES The author’s tendentious history of the chemical company glosses over its role in one of the most catastrophic environmental accidents in history.

"YouTube-style montages and mash-ups have been an excellent tool for seeing and showing how rhetoric takes shape. Of course, these videos can themselves be polemical, and people use them to advance all kinds of tendentious theories." -- From an article by Virginia Heffernan in The New York Times, August 29, 2010
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 word "tendentia," meaning "tendency," plus the English suffix "-ious," "tendentious" has been used in English as an adjective for biased attitudes since at least 1900.

THIS MAY NOT BE A REDNECK PHRASE, BUT IT SHOULD BE!

Our Tendentious attitude of NOT trusting politicans is based upon HISTORICAL FACT!

The redneck explaination: If His mouths moving you know he aint' tellin the truth!