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tenuous
adulterated, cut, embryonic, gapped, imperceptible, microcosmic, phantomlike, slinky, thinned-out, unreal, wiredrawn
Definition
adj.
having thin consistency
Last update: August 16, 2015
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It is a
tenuous
creeper and it needs a support.
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With their blanket bans they have given up any
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moral right they may have had.
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Even the most
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link to 1966 is pounced upon by smug commentators from every angle.
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I had little doubt Quinn would tell Howie, disrupting his
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relationship with Julie.
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She fell into a muse, "Queer, what a spider-web of
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complication human relationships are."
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Then instantaneously, in the darkness of the opposite bank, they faded wraith-like and
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"Well, he'll hang by something less
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, I'm afraid."
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That vision, faint and
tenuous
as it was, had kept him from thinking of other women.
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The astral spirit which he conceived was not unlike More's and Glanvill's "thin and
tenuous
substance."
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Springs and
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, wind-blown falls like water threads trickled down each side of the lofty rocks.
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He's getting excessively
tenuous
about the top of his head.
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