• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    tendentious

    ten·den·tious /tenˈdenSHəs/ adjective expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one. “a tendentious reading of history”

      • ChiwaWithMujicanoHat@mujico.org
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        1 year ago

        It’s a very common word in other languages (Spanish) but my brain didn’t even process it correctly the first time I saw it in English lol

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          1 year ago

          Very common word in Dutch too, but the Spanish did at one point rule the low countries before we kicked them out, so.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for taking the time to explain it to others, which I should have done beforehand. Admittedly when I wrote that post I was thinking of the term “tenacious” which means something completely different, and that distracted me from noticing I was using a perhaps obscure word.