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

Her ears had taught themselves to feel that there could be no vitality in speech without it, and that all utterance unsustained by such tone was effeminate, vapid, useless, unpersuasive, unmusical,—and English.

From He Knew He Was Right by Trollope, Anthony