tendentious
adjective
having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose.
tendentiousness
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a word derived from
tendentious.
Example Sentences
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It leads to murkiness and tendentiousness, and to curators elevating their own ideas over the integrity and singular force of individual artworks.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023
Working within the framework of now-familiar facts, Mr. Weinraub, a former New York Times journalist, has built scenes, dialogue and even characters from what is at best inference and at worst convenient tendentiousness.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2018
Sometimes people, primed to find signs of tendentiousness, read meanings or connotations into words that the writer never intended.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2017
A similar tendentiousness, he says, mars Cornwell's whole work: "He ignores a great deal of material which doesn't fit his theory and makes grave accusations without supplying the evidence."
From Time Magazine Archive
The people I fear are those who look for tendentiousness between the lines .
From Time Magazine Archive
