tendencious,
- 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 Miller, David Hunter
IV I have called, or half-called, this book tendencious; but in a certain larger view it is not so.
From Dona Perfecta by Serrano, Mary J. (Mary Jane)
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 Bell, Clive
For her, as I confess for me, "Dona Perfecta" is not realistic enough—realistic as it is; for realism at its best is not tendencious.
From Dona Perfecta by Serrano, Mary J. (Mary Jane)
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 Forbes, Nevill
