tendentious.

Promoting a particular position through a biased or one-sided presentation.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• a tendentious account
• tendentious reasoning

On the page

The tendentious account omitted the witness who contradicted its opening claim.

She replaced the tendentious summary with a description of what each source actually said.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more tendentious; superlative most tendentious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.