On this page you'll find 7 example sentences with Tendentious. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as partisan or partizan and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Tendentious in a sentence
Tendentious meaning
Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.
Using Tendentious
- The main meaning on this page is: Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.
- Useful related words include: tendencious, partisan, partizan.
Context around Tendentious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tendentious
- In this selection, "tendentious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, spread, referendum, arguments and messages stand out and add context to how "tendentious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include are being tendentious in their and coverage was tendentious and politically. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tendentious" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tendentious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Lawmakers cooked up another tendentious referendum, labeling the system “taxpayer funded,” and voters fell for it, reversing themselves. (18 words)
The “evidence” cited in such tendentious arguments is irrelevant; what matters to liberals is the conclusion, i.e., Trump is always wrong. (22 words)
The Kremlin also claimed BBC coverage was 'tendentious and politically motivated' and that questions over its reporting had accumulated over a long time. (23 words)
It alleges that a wealthy entrepreneur, widely dubbed “Putin’s chef,” funneled money to a so-called troll farm, which sent operatives to the United States, created fictitious social media accounts and used them to spread tendentious messages. (38 words)
In Social Studies of Science, Bricmont and Sokal responded to Stolzenberg, citation denouncing his "tendentious misrepresentations" of their work and criticizing Stolzenberg's commentary about the " strong programme " of the sociology of science. (33 words)
Indeed, it is arguably the case that the Democrats are being tendentious in their framing of the secret congressional testimony or even acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney's hamfisted public comments. (32 words)
Example sentences (7)
Lawmakers cooked up another tendentious referendum, labeling the system “taxpayer funded,” and voters fell for it, reversing themselves.
The “evidence” cited in such tendentious arguments is irrelevant; what matters to liberals is the conclusion, i.e., Trump is always wrong.
Indeed, it is arguably the case that the Democrats are being tendentious in their framing of the secret congressional testimony or even acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney's hamfisted public comments.
It alleges that a wealthy entrepreneur, widely dubbed “Putin’s chef,” funneled money to a so-called troll farm, which sent operatives to the United States, created fictitious social media accounts and used them to spread tendentious messages.
The Kremlin also claimed BBC coverage was 'tendentious and politically motivated' and that questions over its reporting had accumulated over a long time.
This describes all too well the results, and I would say the intentions, of many of the opaque and tendentious “pastoral” guidelines which have followed Amoris Laetitia.
In Social Studies of Science, Bricmont and Sokal responded to Stolzenberg, citation denouncing his "tendentious misrepresentations" of their work and criticizing Stolzenberg's commentary about the " strong programme " of the sociology of science.