How to Use unpersuasive in a Sentence

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• The companies denied the city’s claims and a Cook County judge tossed the case, saying data the city used to link crime weapons to gun shops and gun-makers were unpersuasive.
  — John Keilman, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2022
• The New Yorker story that followed was dramatic but unpersuasive, a hand grenade whose pin could not be pulled.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• None of it really makes sense, tonally or morally, and apart from a few graceful moments the artwork is herky-jerky and unpersuasive.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• But the Supreme Court found this reasoning unpersuasive.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 21 June 2018
• Underhill's order to the city found that point unpersuasive.
  — Molly Harbarger, OregonLive.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Its argument for why Bosse should be prosecuted by the state is unpersuasive at best.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• His lawyer is wildly unpersuasive in a different way here.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2021
• There are new buddies (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), who with smiles, mood enhancers and some unpersuasive narrative nudging help usher James into the here and now.
  — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• And throughout the show, Chris Stezin is often unpersuasive as Facebender, an older contestant with a flowery speaking style and a glam-rocker wig.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
• But that form of defense is unpersuasive to many medical ethicists and to some doctors who work within these hospitals.
  — Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault, STAT, 9 Apr. 2021
• Barr’s argument was unpersuasive even before the president spent the last month trying to overturn the November election, only to be stymied by Congress and the courts.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2020
• Because ruling out her cry for help as unpersuasive to you could be premature or misinformed.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 July 2022
• Hale’s buying into this excuse comes across in his unpersuasive portrayal of Curtain on screen.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 7 Aug. 2021
• The Court of Appeals also found that argument unpersuasive.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2017
• The Russos found the backlash both unsurprising and unpersuasive.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 3 Nov. 2022
• These sweeping arguments for impunity are often unpersuasive to state and federal judges when they have been raised.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2022
• Given that Biogen cut short both trials before they were completed, many experts have found the findings unpersuasive.
  — Anna Edney, Bloomberg.com, 4 Nov. 2020
• But that’s because the registered Republican found the Democrats’ case unpersuasive.
  — Tamara Lush, Twin Cities, 13 Nov. 2019
• Absent independent confirmation, the sheikh’s claims the princess is safe and being cared for by her family are unpersuasive.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 29 Apr. 2021
• Oklahoma’s depiction of the McGirt fallout should be unpersuasive for the justices.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• The dancers’ activity never really advanced or revealed anything new, so the work felt not just unpersuasive but far too static.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
• The logic of the pension change, at a time when people are living longer and most European states have raised the retirement age to 65 or higher, was unpersuasive to many French people fiercely attached to the country’s cherished work-life balance.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• The logic of the retirement age change, at a time when people are living longer and most European states have raised retirement to 65 or older, was unpersuasive to many French people fiercely attached to the country’s cherished work-life balance.
  — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• Several Republicans as well as Democrats said the presentations were unpersuasive and raised questions about why Trump had decided to take out the commander now.
  — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• If that possibility is unpersuasive, there’s also a risk to the U.S.: Regional turmoil is enlarging the trickle of refugees from Congo showing up at the southern border.
  — Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 8 Aug. 2019
• The answers the detective provided were vague and unpersuasive, said Tatiana Jackson, another sister of Lowe.
  — Connor Sheetsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2023
• The scene in which the new council chooses Bran as king was an appallingly flat and unpersuasive way to bring to a conclusion the show's otherwise very sophisticated ongoing engagement with politics and power.
  — Daniel Mendelsohn, Town & Country, 20 May 2019
• At the same time, there is a history of lawsuits that most legal experts thought were unpersuasive nonetheless putting ACA in mortal danger — first the lawsuit against the individual mandate and then the challenge to insurance subsidies.
  — Sarah Kliff, Vox, 15 Dec. 2018
• Owing to that cosmic error, a gate to the underworld left ajar, Ada’s personhood is at best an elaborate compromise, her selfhood an unpersuasive myth, her gendering a cruel and clumsy mistake.
  — David Wright, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• If those numbers seem unpersuasive, Garcia-Hidalgo suggested that observers wait until next year.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 15 July 2023

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024