untenantable
- a word derived from tenant.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Tapping reports that the stench arising from your room has made the house untenantable.
From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Fuhr, Ernest
No disinfectants whatever were used, and at intervals of three days it was emptied by the crudest means imaginable, on which occasions the barracks were not only untenantable but absolutely unapproachable.
From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Mahoney, Henry Charles
The ship commanded by Harris, was found to be in a decayed state and untenantable.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James
One thing was certain; anything was better than stagnation in a swamp; so I made the swamp as untenantable as if it were infested with asps.
From The Claw by Stockley, Cynthia
For one thing, on Mondays, the market-day, the Café Prosper was untenantable.
From Ten Tales by Learned, Walter
