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Crossword-Solution: TENABLE 7 letters, 72 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Tenable a. 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.

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TENABLE anagram BELTANE

We have 72 clues for the answer “TENABLE”

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Having support 1 answer
Like a valid defense 1 answer
Like a sound Argument 1 answer
Like a solid theory 1 answer
Like a solid argument 1 answer
Like a rational theory 1 answer
Like a rational argument 1 answer
Like a good debater's arguments 1 answer
Like a good argument or theory 1 answer
Like a well-armed fort 1 answer
Having some merit 1 answer
Having merit, as a theory 1 answer
Having a solid premise 1 answer
Having a defense 1 answer
Hard to dispute, as a theory 1 answer
Fit to be defended 1 answer
Easily defensible 1 answer
Not like the Alamo 1 answer
Well-based 1 answer
That can be maintained. 1 answer
That can be held 1 answer
Some positions 1 answer
Resistant to attack 1 answer
Readily defended 1 answer
Possible to defend 1 answer
Not ridiculous, as an argument 1 answer
Fit for defending 1 answer
Not easily debunked 1 answer
Not bad, as an argument 1 answer
Logical, as a theory 1 answer
Like some defensive positions 1 answer
Like an excellent theory 1 answer
Like an excellent argument 1 answer
Like a well-grounded argument 1 answer
Easily argued 1 answer
Defensible against objection 1 answer
Can be maintained 1 answer
Can be defended 1 answer
CAPABLE of being maintained 1 answer
CAPABLE of being held 1 answer
CAPABLE of being defended 1 answer
Backed up by facts 1 answer
Able to be defended 1 answer
Easily defended 1 answer
Like good arguments 2 answers
Sound, as an argument 2 answers
Rationally defensible 2 answers
Based on sound reasoning 2 answers
solidly based 3 answers
Like a good argument 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble TENABLE7-letter words that start with T7-letter words that end in E7-letter words containing EN7-letter words containing LE7-letter words with T and E

Sentences with TENABLE (5)

Had he been discovered upon the mainland, or any other place than the almost unknown island that had been his home, they would have concluded that he had formerly been a pet of man; but that theory was not tenable in the face of the isolation of his uninhabited island.
The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
See Tenable.] To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; Ð with from.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
There was not the slightest tenable ground for believing in the authenticity of the text; on the contrary, it has been demonstrated that, after a universal silence of the orthodox fathers of the Church, of the ancient versions of the Scriptures, and of all really important manuscripts, the verse first appeared in a Confession of Faith drawn up by an obscure zealot toward the end of the fifth century.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Andrew Dickson White 1996
The queen and the crown prince with one accord fell sick; and, as I was sick to begin with, our lone position on Mount Saint Helena was no longer tenable, and we had to hurry back to Calistoga and a cottage on the green.
The Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
The blue-jackets numbered a hundred and forty all told; they were engaged separately and fought under the worst conditions, in the dark and among woods; their position in the house was scarce tenable; they lost in killed and wounded fifty-six,--forty per cent.; and their spirit to the end was above question.
A Footnote to History Robert Louis Stevenson 2005

Quotes with TENABLE (3)

The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and perhaps does not admit of one. Some of those who have asked it have added that if it should turn out that life has no purpose, it would lose all value for them. But this threat alters nothing. It looks, on the contrary, as though one had a right to dismiss the question, for it seems to derive from the human presumptuousness, many other manifestations …
Sigmund Freud
These people look upon inequality as upon an evil. They do not assert that a definitedegree of inequality which can be exactly determined by a judgment free of anyarbitrariness and personal evaluation is good and has to be preserved unconditionally. They, on the contrary, declare inequality in itself as bad and merely contend that alower degree of it is a lesser evil than a higher degree in the same sense in which asmaller quantity of poison in a man’s body is a lesser evil t…
Ludwig von Mises Economic Freedom and Interventionism
We have already examined one of the objections that have been brought against the Quantity Theory; the objection that it only holds good ceteris paribus. No more tenable as an objection against the determinateness of our conclusions is reference to the possibility that an additional quantity of money may be hoarded. This argument has played a prominent role in the history of monetary theory; it was one of the sharpest weapons in the armoury of the opponents of the Quantity Th…
Ludwig von Mises The Theory of Money and Credit
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