What's the difference between prejudiced and tendentious?

Prejudiced


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Prejudice

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is the lack of appreciation of limitations which have prejudiced much opinion against such methods; this article attempts to put their true place in perspective.
  • (2) However, I know a good proportion of that was people who were saying: ‘Usually I would be putting up with this, I would kind of shake it off.’” Lowles told the MPs that his group’s research showed that the referendum debate did not appear to prompt people to become prejudiced if they had not been before, but did seemingly influence those already holding such views.
  • (3) By illuminating both the prejudical content of medical theories as well as the emancipatory actions of lesbian and gay communities to change stigmatizing diagnostic and treatment situations, the authors attempt to demystify ideologies about lesbians that motivate clinicians, administrators, educators, researchers, and theorists in the delivery of health services.
  • (4) I am of a similar vintage and, like many friends and fans of the series, bemoan the fact that we are generally treated by society as silly, weak, daft, soppy, prejudiced (even bigoted), risk-averse and wary of new situations.
  • (5) It is older men in manual work who are most likely to admit to being racially prejudiced.
  • (6) As long as the Labour party is biased towards the privileged and prejudiced against the working class, the closed shop will never be opened.
  • (7) However, since 2002, when 42% of Tory supporters said they were very or a little prejudiced (compared with 27% for Labour and 24% for Lib Dems), they have been overtaken by the category classified as “other”.
  • (8) Generally speaking therefore, given that we would not want to run the risk of prejudicing someone's right to a fair trial, it is sensible for us to maintain a situation where we restrict comments on pieces once people have been arrested because of the dangers of people posting prejudicial remarks."
  • (9) Well, I'd be surprised if anyone actually believes it has the power to inspire Damascene conversions among the prejudiced.
  • (10) Although the outlook for pre-eclampsia with heavy proteinuria is limited, in a few cases pregnancy can be prolonged for significant periods of time without apparently prejudicing maternal safety and permitting enhancement of maturity at birth.
  • (11) Lawyers acting for the attorney general said in the high court last month that articles published by the papers would have seriously prejudiced any trial Jefferies might have faced.
  • (12) In addition, when asserting that an archive publication creates a substantial risk that the course of justice will be seriously impeded or prejudiced the applicant should be forced to demonstrate why judicial directions to the jury would not be effective in each individual case."
  • (13) The BSA survey shows that the West Midlands has the highest proportion of people – 36% – who say they are a little or very prejudiced against people of other races in the UK.
  • (14) By setting it up before any criminal prosecutions, it effectively barred the inquiry from examining in detail the very crimes that were its cause for fear of prejudicing pending proceedings.
  • (15) Seventy two per cent said "not at all prejudiced" and, pleasingly, just 2% said "very".
  • (16) That is why I have changed Labour's position on immigration since 2010 because it is not prejudiced to worry about immigration.
  • (17) It is hard to see how this could not be prejudiced.
  • (18) Physicians, however, are apprehensive of such flexibel criteria, and perhaps even prejudiced against "the lawyers" who, rather than directing their attention to the needs of the individual doctor-patient relationship, tend to think in terms of the principles involved.
  • (19) Navratilova, a winner of 18 grand slam singles titles, said: “It is really disheartening to see Ray Moore offer the extremely prejudiced and very old-fashioned statements regarding women tennis players.
  • (20) I don't know what's in the mind of someone else, I don't know if someone is prejudiced, the only thing I can do is work as hard as I can until people can no longer ignore me, turn up for everything I'm booked for and do it to the best of my ability."

Tendentious


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Functions in the large intestine seem to be important for the effect of NT supplements, as NT supplements to the diet of intact animals tendentially had a positive effect on N, Ca and P balances, IRA animals, however, showed a contrary effect.
  • (2) Despite a tendential superiority of the pentoxifylline plus training group, there was no statistically significant difference between groups II and III.
  • (3) This lack of physical contact and encounter, encouraged at times by the disintegration of our cities, can lead to a numbing of conscience and to tendentious analyses which neglect parts of reality.
  • (4) The Kusta activation parameter indicated a tendentially stronger manifestation in the case of clomipramine.
  • (5) (A1-P)% of P (mean polyuria), were significantly different only in D3 as compared to N. Precisely, the LVP-effect to reduce Cc was blunted; moreover a LVP-effect to reduce renal sodium and chloride fractional excretions and a tendentiously enhanced LVP-effect to reduce water fractional excretion were observed.
  • (6) To persist with such a claim is a tendentious representation of the research on which it is based,” says the report, which quotes £12.8bn a year as a more plausible figure for the maximum regulatory savings from a potential Brexit.
  • (7) The time to reach the minimal residual gallbladder volume was only tendentiously prolonged in diabetics with autonomic cardiovascular dysfunction.
  • (8) From the outset he went on the offensive, striking a combative posture and attacking media coverage as biased, intrusive, and tendentious.
  • (9) The prime minister and his defenders have variously depicted the claims, and Israeli media's alleged obsession with Mrs Netanyahu, as "tendentious", "evil gossip" and misogynistic.
  • (10) Voltage clamp studies have suggested that this decrease in conductance occurs within a range of relatively negative membrane potentials and probably consists in the blocking of voltage-dependent, tendentially repolarizing ion channels (perhaps potassium).
  • (11) Asked what languages he understood, Mladic explained tendentiously he understood his mother tongue of Serbian, pointedly adding he understood Macedonian – essentially the same language.
  • (12) Transhepatic cholangioscopic monitoring of the healing process on the 15th, 20th, 30th and 40th day showed that while both types of anastomosis were equally secure, the extramucosal suture after excision of excess mucosa produced wider anastomoses and is therefore advisable in all cases of bilioenteric anastomosis (BEA) but especially when the biliary ways are narrow or tendentially thin-walled.
  • (13) There was a tendential (not statistically significant) decrease in cutaneous tocopherol, ubiquinol + ubiquinone 9 and ascorbic acid levels, either indicating direct photodestruction or consumption by reaction products of photooxidative stress.
  • (14) Critics warn that both programs sweep up substantial intelligence about Americans in a way that relies on tendentious interpretations of the law.
  • (15) The delay in the development of the language often found in twins is usually interpreted as being strictly connected with the twinning situation and on the assumption that a model of verbal, tendentially cryptophasic, communication would more easily exist between twins.
  • (16) Simple liner regression showed a negative correlation between insulin doses and fundus, a tendentially positive correlation between platelet adhesion and fundus.
  • (17) As expected in the hypothesis 97.6% of the sample showed M values below the norm, and 68.3% had Ban values higher than normal, whereas the conformity index was positive and tendentially positive in 65.9% of cases.
  • (18) On academies, free schools and the possibility of allowing for-profit providers to run schools (to which he has "no principled objection" and which he thinks will probably happen eventually), Bell sometimes uses almost exactly the words and phrases Gove uses, albeit without the tendentious political rhetoric.
  • (19) The specific radioactivity of DNA measured in several brain regions was tendentially lower in NL rats, but significance was achieved only in the cerebellum in the comparison between NL rats and C rats.
  • (20) The latest charges arising from his New York Times article, of “deliberate dissemination of false news and spreading tendentious rumours that undermine the prestige of the state”, could see any sentence extended further.