tendentious

Example Sentences

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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

Ms. Kuin’s discussion of Diogenes’ attitude toward death is similarly tendentious.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 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.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)