tenuously / ˈtɛn yu əs /

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tenuously 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. lacking a sound basis, as reasoning; unsubstantiated; weak: a tenuous argument.
  2. of slight importance or significance: He holds a rather tenuous position in history.
  3. lacking in clarity; vague: He gave a rather tenuous account of his past life.
  4. thin or slender in form, as a thread.
  5. thin in consistency; rare or rarefied.

tenuously 近义词

tenuously

等同于 lightly

更多tenuously例句

  1. Haskins, a 2019 first-round pick, was waived by Washington in late December after two tenuous seasons in which he was demoted and fined by the team twice each.
  2. While Democrats have held the House since after the 2018 election, their majority is tenuous.
  3. The Steelers didn’t stop charging, but the lead never again felt tenuous.
  4. It’s a tenuous trust, easily broken by one bad apple, one off-campus party that turns into a superspreading event.
  5. Things had just begun falling into place, giving her a tenuous foothold into the American middle class.
  6. It was never a huge hit, but its stories resonated with an American public tenuously relearning moral ambiguity.
  7. Nearby a faded red “January 25 Revolution” flag was tenuously pinned to the wall.
  8. Some of these accounts were based on fact, some on a mix of fact and fiction, some only tenuously connected to the truth.
  9. Wyatt hung tenuously to a stanchion by a port, watched the night lights recede and the stars begin blooming.
  10. A few anecdotes, obviously based quite tenuously upon hearsay, will suffice to illustrate.
  11. Beneath them spread the valley with the band of the river winding tenuously through the bottoms of the Harper farm.