tendentious , also: tendencious

My main reservation is the tendentious nature of the editor's own role.

He is expected to give his opinion only when asked, although even these requests are tendentious.

Viewers of the page are okay with the tendentious information there.

They then draw tendentious analogies between these cases and today's political situation.

As young men, they managed to avoid falling out over the tendentious terms of their father's will.

But - forgive me for sounding tendentious - nature is the world.

Likewise your greatest ever series claim is tendentious to say the least.

And that's what I needed: a tendentious tickle of truth.

He sounded to himself like some tendentious student with balloon words coming out of his mouth.

The response from the left has been equally tendentious.

Yet for the same reason, his book seems overly tendentious, even vengeful.

So, frankly, all of these questions are ill-informed and tendentious.

Even if Heritage's calculations were accurate, its choice of year would be tendentious.

Tendentious humor, then, is the only kind that can evoke big laughs.

This article can be read as a tendentious apology for the worst forms of male behavior.

It would be much too tendentious to suggest an influence on Britten in this case.

In short, he has written a tendentious book that is more a brief for the prosecution than a work of balanced history.

The tendentious meetings sometimes seem a flashback to the fiscal crisis.

Midway through, however, the essay takes a tendentious turn.

More complicated, but also tendentious, is an installation of works related to eating and slavery.

They think it makes a novel political, which in their vocabulary becomes synonymous with tendentious.

It's a tendentious hour, but not an implausible one.

Stem cell research would be a less tendentious title.

But many of the questions he receives, he says, are "tendentious."

Fascinating but tendentious, the book is only partly successful.