Sententious vs. Tendentious

Sententiousadjective

(obsolete) Full of meaning.

Tendentiousadjective

Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.

Sententiousadjective

Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.

Tendentiousadjective

Implicitly or explicitly slanted.

‘As a supporter of the cause, his reports were tendentious in the extreme.’;

Sententiousadjective

Tending to use aphorisms or maxims, especially given to trite moralizing.

Tendentiousadjective

having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one;

‘a tendentious account of recent elections’; ‘distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion’;

Sententiousadjective

Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.

‘How he apes his sire,Ambitiously sententious!’;

Tendentiousadjective

expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one

‘a tendentious reading of history’;

Sententiousadjective

Comprising or representing sentences; sentential.

Sententiousadjective

abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing;

‘too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation’;

Sententiousadjective

concise and full of meaning;

‘welcomed her pithy comments’; ‘the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams’;