TANGENTIAL

peripheral

only slightly connected

digressing

of superficial relevance if any
SYN - digressive
"a tangential remark"

of or relating to or acting along or in the direction of a tangent
ANT - relevant
"tangential forces"

"He knew that these sort of issues were merely tangential to the office of the presidency and it killed him to see the country vote based on them."

"She really had only a tangential influence on his life."

"The place were he lived was only of tangential interest to finding out about who he was."

TENDENTIOUS

biased

showing marked tendencies

having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one
SYN - tendencies
"distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion."

"He really couldn't trust this tendentious report and so he went to do some research of his own."

"How could he respect someone's opinion who was always shamelessly making such tendentious remarks."

"Whereas he was always careful not to come off as tendentious, she didn't seem to mind."

TENDER

to proffer or offer

a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
SYN - bid

offer or present for acceptance

"He had really wanted to tender the paper to his professor, but first wanted to make a few changes."

"He had tendered to by the house and was waiting to her back from the owners."

"They had only had one tender so far so they decided to leave the add in for a few more weeks."

"When he explained to me that the company was going to merge with ford I tendered my resignation."

TENUOUS

having little substance or strength

flimsy

weak

having a consistency
"a tenuous fluid"

very thin in gauge or diameter
"a tenuous thread"

lacking substance or significance
SYN - flimsy, fragile, slight, thin
"a tenuous argument"

"She was rather tenuous and he knew he could do better than that - find someone at his level willing to challenge him."

"It was a rather tenuous paper and he knew he had to do something to meat it up."

"All that was holding the shirt together was this tenuous string."

TERSE

breif and concise in wording

breif and to the point
SYN - crisp, curt, laconic
"short and terse and easy to understand."

"She had made a point to be terse with him so that she wouldn't have to go into the whiny details of their relationship."

"Thankfully this year she had made a point to be terse in her address to the student body."

"He never was a fan for such cold terse conversations."

TIMOROUS

timid fearful, diffident
SYN - fearful, trepid
"In a timorous tone."

"She could tell he was acting timorous around her and he really didn't know why."

"He had hated how timorous he was in these situations - he had to attack them with a powerful sense of courage."

"She wasn't attracted to a timorous deadbeat like him, she wanted a brave warrior who could thrill her."

TIRADE

a long and extremely critical speech

a harsh denunciation

a speech of violent denunciation
SYN - broadside, phillipic

"He wondered who this tirade was for - he knew he was supposed to be the recipient but he wasn't paying any attention so he assumed it was for their own good a release of their anger."

"She had endured the tirade by her boyfriend and then left the room with her head high in the air never speaking to him again - the boy was crushed and confused - what he was hoping she was gong to be after the speech."

"At first he thought what he must have done to deserve this tirade, but than after that he just looked at it with amusement because nothing they said to him could effect him unless he wanted it to and so their attempt to change something by yelling changed nothing."