Usage of "tendencious"

Having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one.

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Examples for "tendentious"

Examples for "tendentious"

None of this recitation of the record is speculative or tendentious or a feelpinion. 
 The Guardian 

Though the book might so easily have become tendentious, it manages to be interesting throughout. 
 The Irish Times 

This was a highly tendentious claim even in 1989. 
 The Guardian 

Some of them are genuinely thought-provoking, but others seem tendentious, humourless and even slightly obtuse. 
 The Irish Times 

In four games, three of them had tendentious refereeing. 
 The Guardian 

Usage of tendencious in anglès

They are vexed by the teaching implicit in Ibsen's tendencious plays; so am I. 
 Since Cézanne 

I have called, or half-called, this book tendencious; but in a certain larger view it is not so. 
 Dona Perfecta 

For her, as I confess for me, "Dona Perfecta" is not realistic enough-realisticas it is; for realism at its best is not tendencious. 
 Dona Perfecta 

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Meanings of tendencious in anglès