Meanings of tendentious in English

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

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

This was a highly tendentious claim even in 1989.

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

In four games, three of them had tendentious refereeing.

Of course Peter Gill sails close to the wind with his loquacious, tendentious, fascinating new play.

Calling it by a certain name-media-ocracy-is probably tendentious.

Where John Key talked himself out of any trouble, Collins will just dismiss a tendentious line of questioning.

Maybe I'm just being tendentious again.'

Though the material is wholly authentic, the treatment is sometimes tendentious and the book would have gained by cutting.

Prof Cornelius O'Leary contends that my article in your edition of September 8th was "tendentious and inaccurate".

According to them, even the data which had been pretty generally regarded as objective, rest chiefly upon tendentious fiction.

This is what is so pernicious and incendiary about these ideas: they conceal a tendentious opinion about compensatory social programmes.

The peace process has de-escalated the wars over so-called revisionism, making the study of Irish history less embattled and tendentious.

His statements were pungently and idiomatically Terran; but Max ignored them since they were abusive, tendentious, and entirely without merit.

But they're wrong, and not merely because their assessment of Sanders's general-election viability is tendentious and undermined by current polling.