tenable
adjective
capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute.
tenability
-
a word derived from
tenable.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“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
This theory, that Browning's aversion to the spiritualist circle arose from an absolute denial of the tenability of such a theory of life and death, has in fact often been repeated.
From Robert Browning by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The observations on the horse under ordinary conditions would have been quite insufficient for arriving at a decision as to the tenability of the several possible explanations.
From Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Oskar Pfungst
