tendentious

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The position in Ethiopia is, to say the least of it, tendentious, and at any moment the natives may change their skin.

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  1. adjective Marked by a strong implicit point of view; partisan: a tendentious account of the recent elections.

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  • The long-standing problems that beset the HUPD are not going to be solved with more of the politically-correct, tendentious, and ultimately unworthy thought-reform efforts connoted by the terms "diversity training" and —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
  • Whose HoF candidacy wouldn't look stronger based on this kind of tendentious cherry-picking of stats? —  Baseball Analysts
  • They may be reductive or tendentious, but they feed our basic human desire to make meaning out of our world. —  Ferule & Fescue
  • It is hardly surprising then, that anyone who likes to present Church doctrine in a false and tendentious way would flock to him. —  DogfightAtBankstown
  • He said Biden and Pelosi, "while presenting themselves as good Catholics, have presented Church doctrine on abortion in a false and tendentious way." —  Dakota Voice
 

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  1. From Medieval Latin tendentia, a cause; see tendency.
 

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