It's Merriam-Webster's word of the day for April 25th.

Today's word is today's word is tendentious, spelled T-E-N-D-E-N-D-E-N-T-E-N-T-I-O-U-S. T-I-O-U-S. T-N-T-I-O-U-S. T-N-T-E-S. T-N-T-E-O-U-S. T-T-N-T-I-O-U-S. T-T-T-Tentous, used disapprovingly to describe someone or something expressing a strongly biased

point of view in a way that may cause argument. Here's the word used in a sentence from

the Wall Street Journal by Joseph Epstein.

Polls can have their own politics and media polls are often accused of being

Tandentius.

Tandentius is one of several words English speakers can choose when they want to suggest And then

is one of several words English speakers can choose when they want to suggest

that someone has made up their 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.

Tendentious is a relatively recent arrival to English, considering its Latin roots.

In the latter half of the 19th century, English users took the Latinit stem

Tandenti from Tandentia, meaning tendency, and combined it with the familiar adjective suffix IOUS,

to form a word describing someone with a tendency to favor a particular point of view motivated by an intent to promote a particular cause.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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