tendentious

Example Sentences

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A right-wing judge with an established anti-Obamacare record accepted a tendentious interpretation of the biblical “word of God” to deny accessible and affordable healthcare to the entire country.

From Los Angeles Times

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

Fox’s lies are tendentious; their goal, as with Trump and a long line of fascists and autocrats, is to inflame the grievances and prejudices of voters who feel left behind.

From Seattle Times

The drafters based this assertion partially on a tendentious and cherry-picked misreading of a study of Oregon Medicaid enrollees published in 2012.

From Los Angeles Times

But Newitz is not tendentious so much as concerned with conveying the granular texture of life as it is lived.

From Washington Post