Tendentiousness

Definition

tendentious /ten'denʃǝs/ adj ( derog ) တစ္ဖက္ေစာင္းနင္း ဘက္လိုက္ေသာ။ tendentious party propaganda. tendentiously adv tendentiousness n [U]

Examples

1. ‘Some of his examples are tendentious but he is broadly right.’
2. ‘The investigation was prejudiced and tendentious.’
3. ‘This intensive and tendentious coverage made it obvious that some satellite channels were pursuing agendas of their own.’
4. ‘His realism could involve a fair amount of tendentious editing
5. glib generalisation and manipulation of the evidence.’
6. ‘It is an effort not to understand but to use history to advance a tendentious agenda.’
7. ‘This argument mixes so many distortions
8. falsehoods and tendentious points that it's not easy to know where to start.’
9. ‘This is just sloppy tendentious journalism.’
10. ‘They make some good points
11. some misleading points
12. and a few rather tendentious points.’
13. ‘The channel is dispensing a view of the world that is tendentious and intellectually idle.’
14. ‘This is a tendentious
15. romanticised version of the history.’
16. ‘The statistics quoted are highly selective and tendentious.’
17. ‘Some of his criticisms do seem a mite tendentious.’
18. ‘The book is tendentious and unconvincing but well-written.’
19. ‘Some liberal arguments about the significance of this case seem tendentious and overblown.’
20. ‘Government advertising campaigns should be objective and explanatory
21. not tendentious or party political.’
22. ‘The scriptwriter must fashion this already tendentious material into watchable drama.’
23. ‘His use of evidence was tendentious and manipulative.’
24. ‘The author's choice of this phrase was clearly tendentious.’
25. ‘The version is not itself a lie
26. but it is a relentlessly tendentious interpretation.’
27. ‘It is a highly tendentious
28. obviously partisan and unreliable document.’