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Definition of Tenuous
Tenuous

Thin; slender; small; minute.

Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.

Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.

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Tenuous Quotations

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
Archie Shepp

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.
John McHugh

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.
Ken Lucas

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
Larry David


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