tendentious
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It isn’t enough for him to regurgitate all this bad history that’s been totally debunked, or to present this tendentious theory of the Constitution as though it’s obviously correct.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
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
Page makes the tendentious claim that Shakespeare invented the villain, then walks it back to explain exactly what he means.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
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
For the first twenty years of his active life, roughly speaking, he was an artist pure and simple; during the subsequent twenty years, also roughly speaking, he has been didactic, controversial, and tendentious.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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