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Definition
defensible — especially of an opinion or a position- Our position became less and less tenable.
tenable = defensible — especially of an opinion or a position
- How can a slave also be a brother? Christians began to see the situation as untenable.Dinesh D'Souza -- What's So Great About Christianity
- "I really wonder, sir," rejoined the old pupil in an argumentative manner, "to find you taking a position so untenable."Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
- The more I thought about it, the more untenable my position seemed to be.Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
- I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The situation is entirely untenable, and I know it.Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
- For any thinking person, it's untenable.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- The situation was becoming untenable, anyway.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale,Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Your position is untenable.Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- I cannot conceal from you, sir, that the camp will not be much longer tenable;James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
- I pray you all, If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still;William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- SAC's bases in Africa and Spain would be untenable and melt away.Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- There are always untenable events, freak happenings like someone recognizing you, or at worst, the trouble results from a foolish and negligent spy, like my time with Luzan.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- But in the moonlight she could imagine people scrambling over flaming cars to escape the crumbling city, panicking in their flight from this untenable pile of metal and stone.Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
- I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another; ... tadpoles which herons gobble up ... we must see how little account is to be made of it. The impression made on a wise man is that of universal innocence. ... Compassion is a very untenable ground.Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
- The place was, in fact, becoming less and less tenable.Hugo, Victor -- Notre-Dame de Paris
- We are about to find ourselves, my friends, in a position that would not be tenable for people without brains.Dumas, Alexandre -- Ten Years Later
- You can appreciate that under these conditions, our situation had become untenable.Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- The prairie became a gruesome, ghastly shambles; and the camps were almost untenable because of flies and bugs, ticks and mosquitoes.Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in untenable means not and reverses the meaning of tenable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
untenable = not defensible
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in untenable means not and reverses the meaning of tenable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
untenable = not defensible
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in untenable means not and reverses the meaning of tenable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
tenable = possible to defend
untenable = not defensible
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in untenable means not and reverses the meaning of tenable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
untenable = not defensible
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in untenable means not and reverses the meaning of tenable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
untenable = not defensible
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in untenable means not and reverses the meaning of tenable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
tenable = defensible
untenable = not defensible
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in untenable means not and reverses the meaning of tenable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
tenable = defensible
tenable = defensible
untenable = not defensible
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in untenable means not and reverses the meaning of tenable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
untenable = not defendable
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in untenable means not and reverses the meaning of tenable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
untenable = not defensible
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in untenable means not and reverses the meaning of tenable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
untenable = not defensible
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in untenable means not and reverses the meaning of tenable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in untenable means not and reverses the meaning of tenable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in untenable means not and reverses the meaning of tenable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
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