untenable
adjective
(of an argument, thesis, strategy, etc.) incapable of being defended; indefensible.
untenableness
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a word derived from
untenable.
Example Sentences
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I see that you feel the untenableness of our relation.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
It is eminently untrue, that the biological research of the last few years proved for the first time the untenableness of this doctrine, as Grottewitz seems to think.
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by Edwin V. O'Harra
The untenableness of the particular parallelisms above instanced, is no ground for denying an essential parallelism; since early ideas are usually but vague adumbrations of the truth.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
In the last chapter Fleischmann finally attempts to prove on logical principles the untenableness of the evolutionary idea.
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by Edwin V. O'Harra
Of the defined God-idea, whichsoever, we demonstrate the untenableness; but in giving the theist an inconceivable universe we surely meet his appetite for the transcendent.
From Rationalism by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
