convincingness

Example Sentences

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“He was competitive in there,” Haye said, with the convincingness of someone trying to sell a home with a hole in the roof.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

It’s the artistry, the convincingness of the on-ice romance, that seems like it could be affected by an off-ice partnership.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2018

I was so swept up in the convincingness of my idea that I shelled out money from my own pocket for a researcher to do some digging overseas.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2014

And the confirmed Platonist is made so perhaps less by the convincingness of Plato's logic, than by the inevitable and irrefutable grace of his dramatic art.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

He cannot be unreal—the "convincingness" of his most sordid as of his most splendid passages; of his most fantastic diableries as of his most everyday studies of society; is unsurpassed.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George