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is tendentious
adjective
Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.
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She may be apologetic for her tendentiousness, but she is tendentious all the same.
The first idea is tendentious, the second naive.
His decision not to include Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes is tendentious.
After careful consideration, my conclusion is...meh.Mr Jones's version of the story is tendentious.
That philosophical hair-splitting is tendentious evidence for such a damning judgment.
Marshaling cunning arguments to prove that James Polk is a vastly underrated president is tendentious but doable.
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Yet these arguments are tendentious.
Plotting and characterisation are tendentious.
The IDF says videos can be tendentious.
"But all these things are tendentious and highly questionable".
Or is he just being tendentious for rhetorical effect?
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