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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The untenableness of this conception has become since Schiller's time increasingly evident.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
Pius IX., accordingly, wrote to Cardinal Geissel, on June 15, 1857, explaining clearly the untenableness of this new pretext.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
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
So by the hourly change of his principles, the father conceals their untenableness and onesidedness.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
