tenuously

tenuous | American Dictionary

tenuous
adjective
us/ˈten·ju·əs/
weak, unimportant, or in doubt:
The aging dictator’s hold on power is tenuous.

Examples of tenuous

tenuous
If the rights of property could not be enforced even in the countryside, respect for property located in towns could well have been more tenuous.
Although this more closely reflects daily family life, it also makes comparative statements somewhat tenuous.
Under an optimality-theoretic account of grammar, such 'deviation' hypotheses are untenable, and the evidence supporting them tenuous.
Bilinguals have sometimes been described as 'marginal people', because the link with each of their two communities is thought to be tenuous.
Even adult speech that adheres to adult standards may furnish no clues or only tenuous ones.
Individual chapters are relatively short, and would have benefited from elaboration, and the links between them are rather tenuous.
Submission sometimes led to incorporation, but often to a tenuous relation between reluctant subjects and distrusted overlords.
Consider the view that the link between aggregate consumption and current measured income is a tenuous one.
The assertion that the same mechanism overcomes selfish motives by creating altruistic ones is more tenuous.
What compels individuals and families to coalesce into tenuous factional alliances?
Still, it is interesting to note that the link between local elections in 2004 and presidential elections two years later is tenuous at best.
However, the fact that we could only examine a reduced subset of the data for disyllabic verbs makes this interpretation very tenuous.
However, in practice, lines of accountability are more tenuous; they may not be linked or worse, may be nonexistent.
No one would risk so much money on so tenuous an enterprise.
A realistic view of language change, according to which child language acquisition is key, highlights the tenuous bearing that structure preservation has on the process.
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