tendentious
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
Expressing or promoting a particular cause or point of view in a biased way.
The documentary was too tendentious to be trusted as a balanced account.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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