unconvincing
/ʌnkənˈvɪnsɪŋ/
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American sound/ʌnkənˈvɪnsɪŋ/
ʌnkənˈvɪnsɪŋ
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ʌnkən - ˈvɪnsɪŋ -> unconvincing
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- ‘I find it ultimately unconvincing, although as I say, the argument may be more subtle in the book.’
- ‘And the assumption that he had packed away his nuclear kit and abandoned all ambitions still strikes me as deeply unconvincing.’
- ‘Her unconvincing speech was a loosely-connected string of truisms and cliches, with nary a story to give it substance.’
- ‘People find the government's case unconvincing; they simply do not believe it.’
- ‘For example, to argue that all these crimes require some form of further intent is unconvincing, since that is not true of murder.’
- ‘I found the principal love story to be quite unconvincing.’
- ‘I've always been frustrated by the ending we saw in the cinema, which strikes me as tonally appropriate, but utterly unconvincing.’
- ‘Her motives and relationships are rendered dry and unconvincing, but her self-absorption rings true.’
- ‘Also, your gestures have grown constrained: unconvincing and simply wrong.’
- ‘Ever since the modern study of art history began in the eighteenth century, there has been a variety of more or less unconvincing answers to that question.’
- ‘Actor Lalonde is for the most part only adequate and, in the several spots where the text calls for him to cry, is utterly unconvincing.’
- ‘For opponents of the fund that example is unconvincing.’
- ‘In addition, I found the claimant's evidence generally to be unconvincing and unreliable.’
- ‘In the end, dogmatic reactions to sex selection are unconvincing, and often rooted in dubious unstated assumptions.’
- ‘One reviewer finds Perkins' story implausible and unconvincing, except perhaps to conspiracy buffs.’
- ‘I was not impressed with his evidence, which I found to be vague, and unconvincing in the extreme.’
- ‘A relationship between Francine and her sister Dawn is tenuous and unconvincing.’
- ‘Porter et al. acknowledge that theoretical basis of repression is weak and unconvincing.’
- ‘So the Journal's assurance that there is no story here is profoundly unconvincing.’
- ‘Churchill's responses to the academic fraud evidence have been entirely unconvincing.’
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