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comparative more tendentious, superlative most tendentious
Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one. quotations examples
President-elect Donald Trump abruptly abandoned some of his most tendentious campaign promises Tuesday, saying he does not plan to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email system or the dealings of her family foundation, has an “open mind” about a climate-change accord from which he vowed to withdraw the United States and is no longer certain that torturing terrorism suspects is a good idea.
2016 November 23, Karen Tumulty, “Trump backs away from some of his strident campaign promises”, in The Washington Post
It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.
2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37
Implicitly or explicitly slanted. examples