UNTENABLE


Meaning of UNTENABLE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

position

Like Castro himself, it has shown just enough flexibility to move away from untenable positions .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Government restrictions have put the business in an untenable position.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But by the time I came along, that seemed clearly untenable .

It has been suggested that seasonal migrations could explain their presence, but this hypothesis is untenable .

It was a ghoulish and, I knew immediately, untenable situation.

She has made my position here in Hochhauser untenable .

They collectively dismissed the prospect as untenable .

Today, however, such an assertion is wholly untenable .

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