How to Use unpersuasive in a Sentence

unpersuasive

adjective
  • Such whataboutism is unpersuasive.
    — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Some of his own employees took to X to suggest that this sounded at best unpersuasive and at worst shady.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Because ruling out her cry for help as unpersuasive to you could be premature or misinformed.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 July 2022
  • Its argument for why Bosse should be prosecuted by the state is unpersuasive at best.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • So if vague reassurances are so bad, and giving reasons is so good, then why is our world full of so much empty, unpersuasive blather?
    — Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Hale’s buying into this excuse comes across in his unpersuasive portrayal of Curtain on screen.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 7 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Lefkow found many of the defendants’ assertions unpersuasive.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 July 2024
  • This argument, again, discounts binding legal precedent and is belied by the record and, therefore, is unpersuasive.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Sinema’s latest effort to justify her stance is perhaps her most unpersuasive offering yet.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • For the reasons discussed below, defendants' arguments are legally flawed and belied by the record and therefore unpersuasive.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
  • An unpersuasive lawsuit was his only non-embarrassing way forward given his own and his president’s statements.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 12 June 2018
  • The Russos found the backlash both unsurprising and unpersuasive.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 3 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • That argument, however, seems unpersuasive because an indictment was filed, albeit one later dismissed as void.
    — Barbara McQuade, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Judge Sidney Stein found the argument from Menendez's legal team unpersuasive.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2023
  • But Boyd’s case is predicated on an argument Campbell found unpersuasive.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Conflating the conduct of family and clergy is thus inadequate and unpersuasive.
    — Nick Tomaino, National Review, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Oklahoma’s depiction of the McGirt fallout should be unpersuasive for the justices.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • If those numbers seem unpersuasive, Garcia-Hidalgo suggested that observers wait until next year.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 15 July 2023
  • 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
  • For most Americans who deny that these effects remain powerful, Kennedy’s arguments will be unpersuasive.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2017
  • The cases cited by defendants to interpret § 1252(g) so broadly as to bar plaintiffs' instant claims are unpersuasive.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Cannon dismissed the unanimous Nixon precedent as non-binding, unpersuasive dicta that could be airbrushed out of the Supreme Court’s opinion.
    — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024

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