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Lacking substance or significance; a fragile claim to fame"
thin
slight
fragile
flimsy
weak
1
Violence long preceded computer games, so the link is
tenuous
at best.
2
US secretary of state, John Kerry, acknowledged the
tenuous
situation in Kobani.
3
Still, this strikes me as a rather
tenuous
way of securing information.
4
Orthodox molecular models often bear a
tenuous
relationship to the coordinate data.
5
The relationship you draw between migration and productivity therefore seems somewhat
tenuous
.
6
I passed my hand over the card and ended our
tenuous
contact.
7
Now Rydag was gone, and her
tenuous
link to Durc was gone.
8
And the protein network that does form is tender,
tenuous
,
and fragile.
9
Moreover these extremely
tenuous
creatures took a peculiar joy in manipulating solids.
10
From the timber on the opposite shore came a
tenuous
smoke skein.
11
Jook sat silently, recognizing how
tenuous
his grasp on power was becoming.
12
Britain's position was becoming more
tenuous
,
and we had to fix it.
13
Our household was being held together by the most
tenuous
of threads.
14
But then the truth fell like a knife, severing the
tenuous
connection.
15
Attaching Lucy's damaged organs to Piper's would be the most
tenuous
part.
16
This could be the last straw in an already very
tenuous
picture.
tenuous
more tenuous
so tenuous
how tenuous
tenuous grip
tenuous connection