tendentious
adjective
having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose.
tendencious,
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a variation of
tendentious.
Example Sentences
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It must not be diverted to other purposes and used as an occasion for chicanery and tendencious proceedings by which the cause of peace would lose rather than gain.
From The Geneva Protocol by David Hunter Miller
IV I have called, or half-called, this book tendencious; but in a certain larger view it is not so.
From Dona Perfecta by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
Nor was this degradation inexcusable: Van Gogh was a preacher, and too often his delicious and sensitive works of art are smeared over, to their detriment, with tendencious propaganda.
From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell
Among the contributors of the highly tendencious articles was the well-known historian Dr. Friedjung, who made extensive use of documents supplied him by the Vienna Foreign Office.
From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Nevill Forbes
These were, indeed, tendencious, if I may Anglicize a very necessary word from the Spanish tendencioso.
From Dona Perfecta by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
