tenant
noun
a person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office, or the like, from another for a period of time; lessee.
untenantable
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a word derived from
tenant.
Example Sentences
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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 Cynthia Stockley
The ship commanded by Harris, was found to be in a decayed state and untenantable.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney
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 Henry Charles Mahoney
For not only was the dower-house in an untenantable state, but the weather was very much against them.
From The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
The coarse and harsh German soap effectively rendered my hair untenantable.
From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney
