tendentious
/tɛnˈdɛnʃəs/
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American sound/tɛnˈdɛnʃəs/
tɛnˈdɛnʃəs
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tɛn - ˈdɛnʃəs -> tendentious
Myanmar meaning
သီးခြားအရေးကိစ္စ ၊ ရှုထောင့်ကို တိုးမြှင့်စေရန် ပြုလုပ်သော တစ်ဖက်သပ်ဖြစ်သော။ အငြင်းပွားသော။
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- ‘Some of his examples are tendentious but he is broadly right.’
- ‘The investigation was prejudiced and tendentious.’
- ‘This intensive and tendentious coverage made it obvious that some satellite channels were pursuing agendas of their own.’
- ‘His realism could involve a fair amount of tendentious editing, glib generalisation and manipulation of the evidence.’
- ‘It is an effort not to understand but to use history to advance a tendentious agenda.’
- ‘This argument mixes so many distortions, falsehoods and tendentious points that it's not easy to know where to start.’
- ‘This is just sloppy tendentious journalism.’
- ‘They make some good points, some misleading points, and a few rather tendentious points.’
- ‘The channel is dispensing a view of the world that is tendentious and intellectually idle.’
- ‘This is a tendentious, romanticised version of the history.’
- ‘The statistics quoted are highly selective and tendentious.’
- ‘Some of his criticisms do seem a mite tendentious.’
- ‘The book is tendentious and unconvincing but well-written.’
- ‘Some liberal arguments about the significance of this case seem tendentious and overblown.’
- ‘Government advertising campaigns should be objective and explanatory, not tendentious or party political.’
- ‘The scriptwriter must fashion this already tendentious material into watchable drama.’
- ‘His use of evidence was tendentious and manipulative.’
- ‘The author's choice of this phrase was clearly tendentious.’
- ‘The version is not itself a lie, but it is a relentlessly tendentious interpretation.’
- ‘It is a highly tendentious, obviously partisan and unreliable document.’
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