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tendentious

[ten-den-shuhs] / tɛnˈdɛn ʃəs /


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Such tendentious reasoning weakens what is otherwise a powerful record of an institution that was more dynamic and resilient than history suggests.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

You can even find that phrasing distasteful or counterproductive, but trying to hang the word genocide on it, and to punish anyone who uses it, is tendentious.

From Slate Dec. 13, 2023

Like the origins of the Cold War, the legacy of the Versailles Treaty has been subject to so much revisionism, tendentious pleading and misinformation that closer examination is warranted.

From Salon Aug. 19, 2023

He remains a tendentious superstar, but a superstar nonetheless.

From New York Times Oct. 19, 2022

According to them, even the data which had been pretty generally regarded as objective, rest chiefly upon tendentious fiction.

From Mohammedanism Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth, and Its Present State by C. Snouck Hurgronje




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