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Six example sentences with tendentious, each labelled with its topic.
The regiment's official history is tendentious, crediting one colonel for every success and naming nobody at all for the retreat.
History
The documentary is tendentious in its editing, cutting away from every answer that would complicate the argument it wants.
Movies
Reviewers called the survey tendentious for citing only the eleven studies that happened to support the author's own hypothesis.
Science
The party's pamphlet was tendentious from its first line, quoting only the figures that flattered its own record.
Politics
Critics found the novel tendentious, every landlord a villain and every tenant a saint, with no character allowed to surprise.
Literature
The think tank's report was tendentious, starting from the answer it wanted and choosing a time frame that delivered it.
Economics
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