• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    11 months 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”

    • trackindakraken@lemmy.whynotdrs.org
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      11 months ago

      Thank you. I’m not too proud to say I didn’t know this word. And, you saved me looking it up. When I was a kid, my dad got tired of defining words for me when I was reading a book, so he taught me to use a dictionary. From then on, I’ve read with a dictionary next to me.

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        11 months ago

        Thank you. I’m not too proud to say I didn’t know this word.

        You’re welcome, and yeah I had no idea what that word meant either, its why I looked it up in the first place.

      • ChiwaWithMujicanoHat@mujico.org
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        11 months 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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          11 months 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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      11 months 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.