tendentious

I am not persuaded by this criticism—the idea that Jaffa’s famous pugnacity arose from his Straussian ideas rather than his personality strikes me as tendentious.

Despite its somewhat tendentious title and Nelson’s fuming belief that as a Latino he is seen as a loan risk, “The Other Americans” is not a dramatic screed denouncing the inequities of American culture.

That kind of tendentious formulation, along with the overall perspective, ultimately led to the exhibition’s cancellation.

This was a weirdly tendentious way of putting the question.

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