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tenuously

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ten·u·ous  (tny-s)
adj.
1. Long and thin; slender: tenuous strands.
2. Having a thin consistency; dilute.
3. Having little substance; flimsy: a tenuous argument.
[Latin tenuis; see ten- in Indo-European roots.]
tenu·ous·ly adv.
tenu·ous·ness n.
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Adv.1.tenuously - in a tenuous manner; "his works tenuously survive in the minds of a few scholars"
Translations
tenuously [ˈtenjʊəslɪ] ADV [linked, connected] → vagamente
tenuously
adv (= slightly) → schwach, leicht; another world, connected to reality only tenuously → eine andere Welt, nur schwach mit der Realität verbunden


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