tenuous

Security in the town appeared to be tenuous at best, though, with continued reports of potential suicide bombers.

Then as she mechanically held the tenuous death-warrant in her pulseless fingers, her eyes fell on an item just finished.

Mortals do not merely like each other because they like each other; such a bond is tenuous as a spider's thread.

The tie that bound me to Aileen was indefinable, tenuous, not to be phrased; yet none the less it existed.

Caroline drifted finally into the chamber back of the dining room, and they could hear the tenuous vibrations of the clavichord.

Information on basic nonferrous ore reserves is tenuous and, in part, conflicting.