tendentious

Syllabification: ten·den·tious

Pronunciation: /tenˈdenSHəs 

  

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ADJECTIVE

• Expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one:a tendentious reading of history

  MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES

  • The channel is dispensing a view of the world that is tendentious and intellectually idle.
  • This is a tendentious, romanticised version of the history.
  • It is an effort not to understand but to use history to advance a tendentious agenda.