Example Sentences

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“You could say the same about Shakespeare,” I tendentiously texted back from Penn Station.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024

Where Parks’s camera captured, for instance, his subjects’ vulnerability, the captions tendentiously described “known criminals.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2020

The three-word quote from a news outlet edited as tendentiously as a Zagat review posted in a greasy spoon; “the pizza … was … delicious.”

From Fox News • Jun. 12, 2020

We are, in other words, far from the neocolonial world described so tendentiously by Charles Maitland.

From New York Times • May 2, 2016

“I deliberately and tendentiously and provocatively used the term,” Mr. Conway says, and this is characteristic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 14, 2015