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untenable (If a theory or argument is untenable, it cannot be supported or defended against criticism. (Cambridge Dictionary) E.g., But scholars are citizens, too, and if it is wrongheaded to demand political payoff from basic research, it would be equally untenable to demand that research be quarantined from the real-world considerations that weigh so heavily upon us. — Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York Times, 4 Apr. 1998: Lastly, the complainants argued the trustee shouldn’t have blindly accepted the developer’s certifications, but [Justice David] Crerar found it would be untenable to require trustees to investigate the validity and veracity of the developer's documentation.  nsnews.com ART Vancouver) | |||
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| not stand up (to criticism); not hold water; do not hold water (Anglophile); be wide open to criticism (Anglophile); doesn't hold up against criticism (Artjaazz); not to stand up to scrutiny (напр. spiked-online.com Aiduza); not hold up (Баян); not be able to withstand criticism (can't deal with Artjaazz); not hold up to scrutiny (fddhhdot); be beneath criticism; be not good at all | |||
| be no good at all | |||
| hold no water (Баян) | |||
| not to hold water (MingNa); not hold water (Most of the arguments put forward by our opponents simply do not hold water. Val_Ships) | |||
| be beneath criticism; be no good at all | |||
| be beneath criticism (Ни одно из этих возражений не выдерживает критики) | |||
| do not stand up to criticism (Bloomberg Alex_Odeychuk) | |||
| not pass the laugh test (The argument doesn't pass the laugh test reference.com Lana Falcon) | |||
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| it doesn't stand up to scrutiny; doesn't quite add up (However, he noted that this theory doesn't quite add up as "if that had happened you wouldn't expect it to explode and he’d already drank half the drink so the glass was clearly cold." coasttocoastam.com ART Vancouver) | |||
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| strain credulity (когда речь идёт о правдоподобности чего-либо Баян) | |||
| не выдерживающий критики: 25 phrases in 6 subjects |
| Diplomacy | 1 |
| General | 16 |
| Idiomatic | 2 |
| Makarov | 4 |
| Mathematics | 1 |
| Scientific | 1 |