[ adj ] having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one <adj.all> a tendentious account of recent electionsdistinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion
Prosecutions, as is their practice, line up facts in a highly tendentious manner to prove one side of a case.
Pennington tips his hand in a programme-note: he has definite, even tendentious readings of Shakespeare's characters and their situations.