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tenden shuhs

  • s  having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one
    a tendentious account of recent elections
    distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion

  • Not everyone approves of Bright's reductivism, which historian Mark Noll once said led to an evangelical environment that is "naive, inept or tendentious.
  • Ousted from Ghana for "false, tendentious and obnoxious" reports were two British journalists.
  • Therefore, an Iranian secret weapon program is only hype, and the sense of urgency about Iran's nuclear program is rather tendentious.
News & Articles

  • Groan ranger
    Hollywood’s summer is more than halfway over, and the box-office report is telling: If you want to have a hit, don’t lard your film with tendentious, off-putting, off-topic political messages. The summer’s big winners at the box office are mostly mindless spectacle: “Iron Man 3,” “Fast 6...
    July 14, 2013 - New York Post
Quotes

  • Jack Goldsmith in Aljazeera.com
    On an issue that demanded the greatest of care, OLC's analysis of the law of torture in the Aug. 1, 2002, opinion and the March 2003 opinion was legally flawed, tendentious in substance and tone, and overbroad and thus largely unnecessary,...
  • Nancy Pelosi in NewsBlaze
    Indeed, Burke singled out Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi by saying, "while presenting themselves while presenting themselves as good Catholics, have presented Church doctrine on abortion in a false and tendentious way."
  • Pranab Mukherjee in Hindu
    In the context of the forthcoming Presidential election, a number of speculative and tendentious stories involving my name have appeared in the print and electronic media,Mukherjee said.

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