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.
- tendentious adjective Expressing a partisan or biased point of view, especially a controversial one.
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
- adj Unfairly favoring one side; showing prejudice.
- adj Weighted so that some outcomes are more likely than others.
loaded — full definition
- adj Carrying or filled with a heavy load.
- adj (Of a firearm) containing ammunition ready to fire.
- adj Informal: very wealthy.
- adj (Of a question or word) deliberately phrased to provoke a particular reaction or carry strong emotional connotations.
- adj Covered with all the extra toppings or options available.
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