tendentious
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definition
adjective
a tendentious reading of history
expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one.
example
Some of his criticisms do seem a mite 'tendentious' .
The book is 'tendentious' and unconvincing but well-written.
This is just sloppy 'tendentious' journalism.
It is a highly 'tendentious' , obviously partisan and unreliable document.
The statistics quoted are highly selective and 'tendentious' .
The channel is dispensing a view of the world that is 'tendentious' and intellectually idle.
It is an effort not to understand but to use history to advance a 'tendentious' agenda.
His use of evidence was 'tendentious' and manipulative.
The version is not itself a lie, but it is a relentlessly 'tendentious' interpretation.
Some of his examples are 'tendentious' but he is broadly right.
Some liberal arguments about the significance of this case seem 'tendentious' and overblown.
This is a 'tendentious' , romanticised version of the history.
This intensive and 'tendentious' coverage made it obvious that some satellite channels were pursuing agendas of their own.
His realism could involve a fair amount of 'tendentious' editing, glib generalisation and manipulation of the evidence.
This argument mixes so many distortions, falsehoods and 'tendentious' points that it's not easy to know where to start.
They make some good points, some misleading points, and a few rather 'tendentious' points.
The investigation was prejudiced and 'tendentious' .
The author's choice of this phrase was clearly 'tendentious' .
Government advertising campaigns should be objective and explanatory, not 'tendentious' or party political.
The scriptwriter must fashion this already 'tendentious' material into watchable drama.
His books are model monographs, daunting in their research and free of 'tendentiousness' .
She is neither a moralist nor a 'tendentiously' political artist, although her work is informed by an unmistakably feminist sensibility.
A brief review of the data is sufficient to demonstrate the 'tendentiousness' of the exercise.
The 'tendentiousness' of the writing seems to conceal some deeper agenda.
The examples are often used 'tendentiously' .
I'll reformulate this less 'tendentiously' .
He criticizes the proletarian literature of his day for its 'tendentiousness' .
I think the thrust of what they say has been 'tendentiously' distorted.
We'll be saying more about the 'tendentiousness' involved in these arguments.
He goes on to 'tendentiously' misconstrue most everything Clark said.
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