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[ adverb ] in a tenuous manner

Examples

"his works tenuously survive in the minds of a few scholars"

Used in print

(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)

Had More 's writings been wholly limited to such exercises , they would be almost as dimly remembered as those of a dozen or_so other authors living in his time , whose works tenuously survive in the minds of the few hundred scholars who each decade in pursuit of their very specialized occasions read those works .

Related terms

flimsy flimsy

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