untenable
IPA: ʌntˈɛnʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Not able to be held, as of an opinion or position.
- Unfit for habitation.
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Examples of "untenable" in Sentences
- Mostly all the European countries tried and find themselves in untenable positions.
- Moosa, on Wednesday to intervene in what it called the untenable situation of South Africa's conservation sector.
- Croghan remarked, as we listened to the uproar, "Fort Stephenson can hardly be called untenable against heavy artillery."
- He must be at liberty to assume disguises, to balance precariously in untenable positions, to sacrifice the letter of the truth to the spirit of it.
- There are many innocent victims but also many many people that put themselves in untenable positions with purchases that they could barely afford and too little savings to weather a storm.
- The 29-year-old has claimed his position in the England squad is "untenable" - a decision related to the alleged affair between his former Chelsea team-mate John Terry and Vanessa Perroncel, the mother of his young son.
- At a farmers 'regional congress at George, WCAU chairman Chris du Toit described as untenable and draconian proposals allowing farmworkers to strike while receiving all the benefits of life on farms, and trade unions access to farmers' financial statements.
- His plan to offer up the goddess Freia to the giants who built Valhalla is untenable from the start, as it would mean forcing the Gods to give up their eternal youth (her golden apples do a lot more than just keep the doctor away -- and remember, there was no Botox in 19th century Germany).
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