tendentious

Example Sentences

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This was a weirdly tendentious way of putting the question.

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Some of the defiant humor about women’s bodies feels tendentious and forced.

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That would be a more appropriate description of the majority report, which advances no “facts” but rests on fabricated and tendentious assumptions.

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Critics, again mostly Republicans, weighed in again with tendentious lectures on social media about the moral imperative of meeting one’s obligation to pay back a loan.

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The words and phrases that the plaintiffs replaced with their own tendentious language are in italics.

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