tenable
adjective
capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute.
tenability
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a word derived from
tenable.
Example Sentences
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“The Carmichael Show” owes its title, its format and its tenability as mainstream sitcom to “The Cosby Show,” and the episode is completely aware of it.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2016
For months we’ve had fun doubting the tenability of Gallery Girl’s premise.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2012
But that answer is losing its political tenability, says John D. Donahue of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2012
All that I am doing is to use its logical tenability as a help in the analysis of what occurs when we remember.
From The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell
His whole game is to capture as many of his audience as he can by strategy, to checkmate them by any legitimate theatrical move, regardless of tenability of subject, and in despite of truth.
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: in Mizzoura by Augustus Thomas
