Faible, facile à rompre ou à mettre en doute.
Weak and easily broken or doubted.
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Le lien est ténu. — The link is tenuous.
Il n'a donné qu'une excuse ténue pour le retard. — He gave only a tenuous excuse for the delay.
Cette preuve n'est-elle pas un peu ténue ? — Isn't that evidence a bit tenuous?
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