0 If a theory or argument is untenable, it cannot be supported or defended against criticism. --
If three people in four no longer support the government, isn't this an untenable situation?
1 not able to be supported or defended against criticism, or no longer able to continue: --
First, he has condensed over 2,000 years of history into some 350 pages without one feeling that there are any grave or untenable omissions.
However, the intrinsic improbability of such a solution makes this belief untenable!
Many who accept the former point regard the latter as an implausible vestige of an untenable philosophy of mind.
The coexistence of new industrial town and remnant agrarian hamlet was thus increasingly untenable.
With relatively few cases remaining to be detected, screening in its present form will become untenable.
After all, it makes little sense systematically to falsify accounts if one is unaware that the bank is in an untenable position.
From the 1910s and 1920s onwards, some of the leading assumptions of salutary neglect appeared to become untenable.
The critique of class and other grand concepts was located in a world in which meta-narratives were becoming increasingly untenable.
