Example Sentences

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Catherine takes the other queens to task, belatedly and unpersuasively, for comparing their traumas, and for allowing themselves to be defined by them.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2023

Hamalainen thus misses the actual place of Indian peoples in the formation of constitutional law and policy, unpersuasively asserting that the early Republic remained “overwhelmed by Indigenous power.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2022

I was reminded of how Jon Stewart, whenever someone observed that many young people got their news from “The Daily Show,” protested, unpersuasively, that he was just a comedian cracking jokes.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017

"Your hands on me aren't the least persuasive," she tells him, unpersuasively.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2014

Ms. Brooks and Mr. Nolan deliver their lines unpersuasively, their sincerity bouncing off Ms. Lohan’s and Mr. Deen’s glazed personas.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2013