tendentious
adjective
ten·den·tious
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Examples of tendentious in a Sentence
He made some extremely tendentious remarks.
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Clever compositions enliven the shots of cameras and control rooms, where screens within screens transmit tendentious opinions to the American people. — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, "âThe Loudest Voiceâ Eviscerates Roger Ailes and Fox News," 30 June 2019 The Duplass brothersâ new series represents a huge advance over those previous, thoroughly tendentious treatments, in two major ways. — Win Mccormack, The New Republic, "Outside the Limits of the Human Imagination," 27 Mar. 2018 Even the names of the effects are more tendentious than descriptive. — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, "Does a schoolâs enrollment really go down when students protest en masse?," 12 Sep. 2017 That historical account would be as self-serving and tendentious, in its own way, as our current glorious one. — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, "We Could Have Been Canada," 15 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tendentious.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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tendentious
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of tendentious
formal + disapproving
: strongly favoring a particular point of view in a way that may cause argument : expressing a strong opinion
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