tendentious

This was a weirdly tendentious way of putting the question.

Some of the defiant humor about women’s bodies feels tendentious and forced.

That would be a more appropriate description of the majority report, which advances no “facts” but rests on fabricated and tendentious assumptions.

Critics, again mostly Republicans, weighed in again with tendentious lectures on social media about the moral imperative of meeting one’s obligation to pay back a loan.

The words and phrases that the plaintiffs replaced with their own tendentious language are in italics.