(adjective) marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view; biased
Adorno's recourse to tendentious terms such as 'the people's community'
consciousness--what used to be called, rather tendentiously, the faculty of contemplation
what a tendentious definition of reality she proposes
criticism's tendentious politics
(appropriately for a piece against tendentiousness, the small details are unavoidable [...])
on Host's footnotes
Berlusconi the statesman is possible only thanks to his tendentious monopoly of the medium that best realizes and imposes that suspension of disbelief.
mainstream economics’ account of dysfunctions in the economy as being the result of a cleavage between traditionalist principles of moral economy and rational-modern principles amounts to a tendentious misrepresentation, for it hides the fact that the ‘economic’ economy is also a moral economy, for those with commanding powers in the market
Without sufficient eloquence, it’s a strategy likely to misfire into tendentiousness.
These are tendentious stabs at critique, designed to back up Short’s notion of a drip-drip-drip effect of colonial inculcation, and they are weak ones.
This had always been Kennan’s tendential position. It now became the official US position.
a combination of misunderstanding of the Pravda edits and rather tendentious retellings
‘Without firing a single shot we were victorious,’ Kerensky wrote, ten years later. The ‘we’ was breathtakingly tendentious.
on the Kornilov revolt
It was hard not to share n+1's derision, once its victim has been so tendentiously trussed
to minimize the context of war while it was still a recent memory was tendentious
What is rational cannot, if one takes rationality as a standard seriously, be just a tendentious synonym for what is good for her.
The Woman Warrior’s tendentiousness is feminist
Hegel was seen (a bit tendentiously) by Althusser and his disciples as a confident oracle of the End of History