However the argument is often lost in some very tendentious reasoning. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
But this review can only be described as tendentious, biased, and misleading. From Wordnik.com. [The Jews and the Revolution] Reference
These kind of tendentious pronouncements from Iran's president make many in the west uncomfortable. From Wordnik.com. [Collision Course: The United States and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran] Reference
If we didn't already have the word "tendentious" we would have to invent it to describe this article. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
Israel rejected the inquiry's findings, even before the summary was released, as "tendentious" and "patently biased". From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Boswell's main problem is his tendentious interpretations of the evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Do You, Paul, Take Ralph...] Reference
A tendentious account of recent elections. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Engage in tendentious misinterpretation of said piece. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Staggeringly Off-the-Mark Forecasts of European Economic Preeminence] Reference
Calio recalls a tendentious debate in the Roosevelt Room over steel tariffs. From Wordnik.com. [THE ROAD TO RESOLVE] Reference
This kind of tendentious whimsy is more peculiar than interesting; as the pages turn, one becomes inured to it and begins to yawn. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
Whose HoF candidacy wouldn't look stronger based on this kind of tendentious cherry-picking of stats?. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Analysts] Reference
Wikipedia took a big hit when the arbcom decided to brand me a "tendentious" editor, when all I was doing was correcting violations of NPOV policy. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
"tendentious" edits on some issues which are hotly debated by liberals and conservatives, but I haven't appealed that decision. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
MATALIN: I think the -- it's not just tendentious. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2006] Reference
Perniciuos, slanted, tendentious and question-begging cant. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Another one was the extremely tendentious tone of the opinions. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2007] Reference
It is merely a piece of tendentious Islamist-promoting propaganda. From Wordnik.com. [Censorship by intimidation] Reference
Derek named Henry Sidgwick when he picked him up on his 'tendentious use of "client". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Let's hope these people don't decide to let a tendentious movie influence their policy making. From Wordnik.com. [Why 'Waiting for Superman' premiere was chilling] Reference
Let's hope the people in the audience don't let a tendentious movie guide their policy making. From Wordnik.com. [The Answer Sheet VALERIE STRAUSS] Reference
To raise the spectre of anti-Semitism as an explanation of any criticism of Israel is tendentious. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
But intellectual dishonesty and tendentious interpretation is the calling card of Obama supporters. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Precinct Captain's Mailer Urges Republicans To Switch Parties To Stop Hillary] Reference
His show pimps ridiculous viewer polls whose wordings are so tendentious even Dobbs has to chuckle. From Wordnik.com. [Father Dobbs] Reference
It's even more foolish to comment on them if you disagree with their distorted, tendentious opinions. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
One point I would make, however pedantic you may think it: I do not think the term "client" tendentious. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Corporate sponsorship, the alternative to private support of emerging designers, has proven tendentious. From Wordnik.com. [Heba el Habashy and Charles LaCalle: The Next Big Thing Is Up and Coming: Cultivating Emerging Designers From London to NY] Reference
Life-writing, biography, is plotted, shaped by an argument and is summary, selective and often tendentious. From Wordnik.com. [Was he anti-Semitic?] Reference
True, much of the material on the Web is inane or insane, confused, badly written, tendentious, and inaccurate. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
I will confess to occasionally being annoyed as any of you at misconceived, inaccurate or tendentious criticism, and. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The position in Ethiopia is, to say the least of it, tendentious, and at any moment the natives may change their skin. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917] Reference
Anything else, any other questions, tendentious questions, of course, it's up to them whether to respond to them or not. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2003] Reference
Veneman should have known that her highly tendentious remarks would inevitably be used by some for purposes she did not intend. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
Both sides indulged in this point-scoring by writing to Filkin, sometimes with no hard evidence other than a tendentious press report. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
But the editing of history has been too tendentious (not that I expect everyone's reading of history to agree with mine - far from it). From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Their campaign repeated tendentious and often highly inaccurate terms such as ‘collective punishment’ and ‘violation of international law’. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
But this exhausting, tendentious report is so stuffed with made-up numbers that it loses whatever non-propaganda imact it was ever supposed to have. From Wordnik.com. [What's the Real Cost of Booze?] Reference
The scariest thing about this poorly sourced, tendentious piece of hit 'concern' journalism, is that Melanie Phillips seems to actually believe her own propaganda. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
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