Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not fit to be tenanted or occupied as a dwelling; uninhabitable.
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- adjective property
Unliveable orunuseful in its present state topurchaser ,tenant orvendor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The consular house was soon crammed with dirty Jews, whose vermin and filth rendered the house untenantable, until it had undergone a thorough repair and cleansing.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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An attempt to burn Miss Crandall's house followed, and on the night of Sept. 9, 1834, it was made untenantable under the assaults of a mob.
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The coarse and harsh German soap effectively rendered my hair untenantable.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
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No disinfectants whatever were used, and at intervals of three days it was emptied by the crudest means imaginable, on which occasions the barracks were not only untenantable but absolutely unapproachable.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
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After some time this hospital being very open, became untenantable, and in February was closed, and Miss Mitchell was transferred to Union Hotel
Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan
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Ought not the renting of untenantable rooms, and the crowding of such numbers into a single room as must breed disease, and may infect a neighborhood, be as much forbidden as the importation of a pestilence?
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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It was shelled later in the war by the Federal gunboats and rendered untenantable.
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Ought not the renting of untenantable rooms, and the crowding of such numbers into a single room as must breed disease, and may infect a neighborhood, be as much forbidden as the importation of a pestilence?
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The solicitors placed it in our hands, but the property until the twenty years have elapsed, is quite untenantable.
Hushed Up! A Mystery of London William Le Queux 1895
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I have two visitors, both relations: one a very comfortable, good woman, whom I like; the other a large, bony, uncomfortable person, who never can get into the right place, and is always in the way, and makes a room look untenantable by the mere fact of her being in it.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892
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