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How can you use “tendentious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Crossfire 's basic fuel is the tendentious question.
It is his duty, he writes in Crossing the Threshold of Hope , to "interpret [Vatican II] correctly and defend it from tendentious interpretations."
These have ranged from the triumphalist (such as Jay Winik's On the Brink , a hagiographic account of the Reagan-era officials he sees as the Cold War's victors) to the tendentious (say, Peter Schweizer's simplistic Victory , giving all the credit, again, to Reagan) to the thoughtful (such as We Now Know , by the dean of Cold War historians, John Lewis Gaddis).
As an Irish-American who is unapologetically proud of both parts of my hyphenated identity, I find Foer's piece less offensive than tendentious and historically ill-informed.
I can also provide some equally tendentious counterexamples.