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What does untenable mean?

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Adjective
  1. Not able to be held, as of an opinion or position; unholdable, indefensible.
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He did everything to make the bureau head's job untenable, until the latter was controversially sacked.
His position is becoming more untenable in the light of more revelations that have come out.
His position is untenable one unless he means us to make a bonfire not just of Dilthey but Nietzsche and Heidegger too.
The meeting unanimously agreed that the current situation at the hospital was untenable.
That is absolutely absurd and untenable and, in our submission, a serious deficiency.
Such shallow and untenable reasoning lies at the heart of many sexist, racist and elitist dogmas.

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