Tenable is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TENABLE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• capable of being held
• able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection
• (of an office, position, scholarship, etc.) able to be held or used
• able to be upheld or maintained
• Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.
• based on sound reasoning or evidence

Words related to TENABLE

tenably12

Words that contain TENABLE

intenable11 untenable11 fattenable15 listenable12 tenableness13 unlistenable14 tenablenesses15 untenableness15 untenablenesses17

How to use TENABLE in a sentence

• Elias is about one hundred and eighty miles distant, his conclusion is not tenable.
• Thus, at the very outset, they took a ground which was for ever tenable.
• As little did the territory of the Italian confederacy present any tenable basis.
• The current hypothesis, according to which the six centuries of the nobility alone amounted to 1200, and the whole equestrian force accordingly to 3600 horse, is not tenable.
• Now this contention, so far as it refers to a sentimental bias, is not tenable.
• If we abandon that high standpoint, there is no tenable reason left, on the score of morality, for condemning suicide.
• It is now pretty generally admitted that the Parliament, having vanquished Charles First, had no way of making any tenable arrangement with him.
• Is it to these that Papias alludes? Here we have a much more tenable and probable hypothesis.
• Too much stress, however, must not be laid upon this, because the Catholic writers were certainly apt to assume that their own view was the only one tenable.
• They may be right, but no one of them has thus far produced any tenable argument, to say nothing of positive proof.
• But this hypothesis seems to us scarcely tenable, especially by reason of the great stress that it would have taken to lift the superstructure.
• Even the theory that the Chinese emperor was the Son of Heaven and enthroned at the centre of the world was no longer tenable.
• The so-called ethical objections are still less tenable.
• The conception of Luis de Leon as a meek spirit, an unresisting victim of malignant persecution, is not the sole view tenable of a complex character.
• I should be glad of it, if it was tenable with my seat in Parliament.
• In comparison, it did seem tenable that there was something weak and over patient about Christian counsels.
• It is tenable, but it is not specially favourable to activity or progress.
• Had his opponents been content to point out serious deficiencies in the general tendency of his teaching, they would have held a thoroughly tenable position.
• Inquiries were instituted, and showed that the hypothesis was at least tenable.
• The doctrine evidently possesses two points of moral truth and power, and, if not tenable as strict science, is yet instructive as symbolic poetry.
• From construction, if for no other reason, this hypothesis seems perfectly tenable.
• The old view that racial crosses lead fatally to race degeneration is no longer tenable, but the view recently advanced, that crosses are advantageous, seems equally hasty.
• To their minds, it has become no more than the survival of a superstition, which is no longer tenable.
• Moderate, tactful, restrained, patriotic, he was the only man who, when difficulties arose, was always able to approach the Chancellor, sure of finding some tenable compromise.
• That this scheme of Nature was not accurate or well founded is perfectly tenable, but surely it is not tenable that it was not optimistic.
• This is leading to a revision of inherited traditions, that were based on a view of the Bible which is no longer tenable.
• This species of argument, under these two limitations, they believe to be tenable in christian morals, and they entertain this belief upon the following grounds.
• And as the Quakers conceive this species of argument to be tenable in Christian morals, so they hold it to be absolutely necessary to be adopted in the education of youth.
• The position was not tenable any longer, and it was his only course.
• All these views are tenable because though Hindu life may be cut up into castes and sects, Hindu creeds are not mutually exclusive and repellent.
• The notion that frequent war is a healthy tonic for a nation is scarcely tenable.
• There is plainly no tenable position between absolute infidelity and absolute belief.

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