tendentious

marked by a strong implicit point of view; partisan


This word appears in a recent new Yorker article: “[The Iraq Study Group’s report] contends only that what it offers is less bad than the alternatives (though its case against one alternative—what it calls, a little tendentiously, ‘precipitate’ or ‘”premature’ withdrawal—is more asserted than argued). That Bush’s war in Iraq is an unmitigated catastrophe has been known for some time. What the Iraq Study Group has done is to make it official.”

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