unpersuasive

Example Sentences

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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

The court found this position not just unpersuasive, but unconstitutional.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2023

Diderot may be right, and Talma may be wrong, but we are convinced that the art Miss Anderson has practiced is, on the whole, barren and unpersuasive.

From Mary Anderson by Farrar, J. M.