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
The tendentious rationalist further theorized that if one were to live in a remote rural town he or she would not make compatability an issue.
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