tendentious

Example Sentences

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English has a particular facility to be manipulated for tendentious purposes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

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

But while Martel’s novel has a deep and sometimes tendentious concern with religion and philosophy, Chakrabarti’s adaptation engages with these questions only glancingly.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 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 Mabie, Hamilton Wright