Adjective : a tendentious novel. From Dictionary.com.
Accordingly, Feisal sent back tendencious answers; and the correspondence continued brilliantly. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
Honestly, I have to ask: are you always this tendencious, or is this reserved for occasions when the cult requires an ardent defense?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Against Climate McCarthyism, Part Deux] Reference
INFOBAE from Argentina reports the inaccurate and very tendencious EFE report who takes great care to point out that all meeting points were "en areas pudientes" implying that only rich people showed up. From Wordnik.com. [11/19/2006 - 11/26/2006] Reference
The tragic consequence of mass communications has been the dissemination of tendencious knowledge to enslave the minds of mankind, rather than free us to experience our own ignorance until we learn better. From Wordnik.com. [Can Obama Change the Climate?] Reference
They are vexed by the teaching implicit in Ibsen's tendencious plays; so am I. From Wordnik.com. [Since Cézanne] Reference
I have called, or half-called, this book tendencious; but in a certain larger view it is not so. From Wordnik.com. [Dona Perfecta] Reference
For her, as I confess for me, "Dona Perfecta" is not realistic enough -- realistic as it is; for realism at its best is not tendencious. From Wordnik.com. [Dona Perfecta] Reference
Among the contributors of the highly tendencious articles was the well-known historian Dr. Friedjung, who made extensive use of documents supplied him by the Vienna Foreign Office. From Wordnik.com. [The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey] Reference
Nor was this degradation inexcusable: Van Gogh was a preacher, and too often his delicious and sensitive works of art are smeared over, to their detriment, with tendencious propaganda. From Wordnik.com. [Since Cézanne] Reference
The burden of all this tendencious matter has caused his art to suffer at times, no doubt, but his inspiration has retained throughout much of the marvellous freshness of the earlier years, and the genius of the poet still flashes upon us from a prosaic environment, sometimes in a lovely lyric, more frequently, however, in the turn of a phrase or the psychological envisagement of some supreme moment in the action of the story or the drama. From Wordnik.com. [Bjornstjerne Bjornson] Reference
It is an inexact and tendencious information. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #12 « Climate Audit] Reference
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