unpersuasive

Example Sentences

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But dismissing the appeal, Lord Justice Edis, sitting with Mr Justice Martin Spencer and Ms Justice Norton, said they concluded it was "ultimately unpersuasive".

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2025

This appeal to the objective personal and social benefits of working, and to a sense of justice, is an attempt to elevate social-welfare debates beyond mathy fiscal arguments voters often find dull and unpersuasive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Others ended in defeat, with judges calling his arguments unpersuasive or “absurd” or, in one case, dismissing them without comment.

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2025

But the court disagreed, finding unpersuasive the evidence of Golden Rice’s safety presented by government attorneys defending the permit.

From Science Magazine • May 2, 2024

How they poke, wave, flourish, point, jerk, shake finger and fist at their antagonists—dumb essentially, all the while, if they knew it; unpersuasive and ineffectual, as the shaking of tree branches in the wind.

From Mornings in Florence by Ruskin, John