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UK
/ʌntˈɛnəbəl/
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[ US /ənˈtɛnəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ənˈtɛnəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- (of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified
How To Use untenable In A Sentence
- This argument is untenable from an intellectual, moral and practical standpoint.
- The author thought that the joint negligence principal offender theory can be established, and the negligence abettor or the negligence assist offender is untenable.
- Will the book make his Jobs untenable? Times, Sunday Times
- As competition from Asia increases and shareholders clamour for ever faster growth some regard the inward-looking nature of the family corporate setup as untenable.
- You could be sitting there in absolutely untenable conditions, in water that is filled with disease and germs for months to come, walking through it, slogging through it.
- Hopping from heist to heist, with the fuzz getting ever closer, the rivalry that has flared escalates and the cracks in this already untenable threesome begin to widen.
- Even a sensible idea or a fine principle is exaggerated to the point that it becomes preposterous and untenable.
- Assessing the available evidence about the life history of ‘The Recruited Collier,’ Roy Palmer concluded that Lloyd's ascription of it to Huxtable is untenable.
- With the growth of anatomical knowledge, the literal hypothesis of the morbidly wandering womb became increasingly untenable.
- His position had become untenable and he was forced to resign.