Tendentious By Deane Barker • January 18, 2022 • Definition: partisan; having a point of view This is often applied to journalism, particularly the coverage of politics or issues that have a political aspect. Why I Looked It Up From Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin, the author discusses media coverage of science news: Reporters eager to avoid tendentiousness or editorializing – that is, eager to give both sides – can wind up in a kind of analytical passivity that leaves them with he-said-she-said stories that simply shift the burden of interpretation to the readers, who are even less equipped for the job than they are. Postscript Added on May 28, 2023 In The Swerve: How the World Became Modern: Much of what Petrarch and his followers claimed for the novelty of their approached was tendentious, self-congratulatory exaggeration.