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tendenziös — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • biased adj Unfairly favoring one side; showing prejudice.
  • loaded adj Carrying or filled with a heavy load.
  • skewed adj Tilted or twisted away from the expected straight line or angle.

Senses

tendenziös is used for these senses in English:

  • biased Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
  • loaded (of a word or phrase) Having strong connotations that colour the literal meaning and are likely to provoke an emotional response. Sometimes used loosely to describe a word that simply has many different meanings.
  • skewed (statistics, of information) Biased, distorted
  • tendentious (of persons or their words) Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.

biased — full definition

  1. adj Unfairly favoring one side; showing prejudice.
  2. adj Weighted so that some outcomes are more likely than others.

loaded — full definition

  1. adj Carrying or filled with a heavy load.
  2. adj (Of a firearm) containing ammunition ready to fire.
  3. adj Informal: very wealthy.
  4. adj (Of a question or word) deliberately phrased to provoke a particular reaction or carry strong emotional connotations.
  5. adj Covered with all the extra toppings or options available.

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