tendentious

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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

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 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

Calling it by a certain name-media-ocracy-is probably tendentious.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai