Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
TENUOUS
flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin
(adjective) lacking substance or significance; “slight evidence”; “a tenuous argument”; “a thin plot”; “a fragile claim to fame”
tenuous
(adjective) very thin in gauge or diameter; “a tenuous thread”
tenuous
(adjective) having thin consistency; “a tenuous fluid”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
tenuous (comparative more tenuous, superlative most tenuous)
Thin in substance or consistency.
Synonyms: delicate, gossamer, Thesaurus:fragile
Insubstantial.
Synonyms: ethereal, Thesaurus:insubstantial
Source: Wiktionary
Ten"u*ous, a. Etym: [L. tenuis thin. See Thin, and cf. Tenuis.]
1. Thin; slender; small; minute.
2. Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
Definition: Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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