tendentious (tĕn-DĔN-shəs)

Definition

(Adjective) Having a purposed tendency; composed or written with such a tendency or aim.

In Context

“Indeed, these texts are tendentious and combative, and they often skew well-known evidence to satisfy their particular needs – as did the French, the Chinese, and the Americans.”

Patricia M. Pelley, Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past, 2002.