How To Use Unconvincing In A Sentence

What he is saying may make some sense to pointy heads, but to many it will seem unconvincing and vague. Times, Sunday Times
His denial of responsibility for the accident was unconvincing.
The script isn't believable, the characters are unconvincing and the plot is not entertaining. The Sun
You can believe this from his unconvincing performance.
Celtic lost to Basel in the Champions League, to Motherwell in the SPL, and were unconvincing last weekend against Hibs.

Mr Patel phoned the University for an explanation, and he was given the usual unconvincing excuses.
The former champion hurdler has something to prove after an unconvincing comeback win. Times, Sunday Times
Real's defence of the cup has so far been unconvincing, even in last week's defeat of the Russians, but they are in little danger of failing to qualify.
Your last argument about the wheat and the chaff is still unconvincing. Think Progress » CNN’s Kyra Phillips apologizes for hosting discredited ‘ex-gay’ guest: He wasn’t an ‘appropriate’ choice.
His left-leaning editorial cartoons were, by his own admission, shrill and unconvincing.
Near the end, there is a sudden reversal of our ideas about the matron and her husband, but it is both maudlin and unconvincing.
There is something about him that is unconvincing, but in full flight he can look almost balletic. Times, Sunday Times
Negotiating with buyer as instruct however afraid unconvincing as your price compare unfavorably faith others.
As he suffered derision upon derision, I am not certain whether I should call this Monterone unconvincingly pathetic, or pathetically unconvincing.
A relationship between Francine and her sister Dawn is tenuous and unconvincing.
McConnell's aides rushed to his defence yesterday, insisting unconvincingly that, had he failed to check on whether he needed to register the painting, the media would have hounded him over the issue.
So perhaps it is predictable that the less that survives from an original score, the more unconvincing seem the results. Times, Sunday Times
But here the strained and unconvincing resolution arrives posthaste.
The Games were marvellous but talk of a legacy of swelling enthusiasm for energetic pursuits was always unconvincing defiance of Olympic history. Times, Sunday Times
In keeping with their performance during the opening 45 minutes, the equaliser was unconvincing in its conception.
The 85 minutes of laboured monologues and unconvincing heroism are as entertaining as a pet's funeral.
The political situation at that time precluded filming the exteriors on real South-East Asian locations, and the studio jungle looks unconvincing.
Somehow this transmitted itself to the players, who began tweeting similarly ominous warnings, apparently having taken to heart the suggestion that they had been unconvincing and lax. Times, Sunday Times
Australia's patchy 2-1 victory over Thailand last week was unconvincing but in Dammam two goals by Josh Kennedy and a penalty from Luke Wilkshire lifted the Socceroos to the top of Group D.By contrast, Japan's away-match experience was all about toiling for a draw. Lionel Messi inspires Argentina to victory over Nigeria in Dhaka
Spock’s perfect concentration was broken; he glanced over at McCoy, his expression unconvincingly calm, clearly expecting the worst. Demons
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.
In an otherwise excellent issue about global warming, I found Jeremy Creed's article very unconvincing.
Churchill's responses to the academic fraud evidence have been entirely unconvincing.
The special effects were not unconvincing; they were risible, especially the scenes of the wealthy giantess stalking the countryside.
Many new al-Qaida members say, unconvincingly, that they decided to become a jihadist after reading an extreme, anti-American blog, or after converting to Islam, sometimes just a few weeks before.
The alternative health section is informative, but very unconvincing. Times, Sunday Times
He is a wooden, boring, uninspiring, unconvincing orator, who completely lacked the common touch or any real ability to communicate with voters.
Also, your slavish use of obsolete, twee and anglicised Hibernicisms is peculiarly un-Irish, not to mention unconvincing and uncouth.
What he is saying may make some sense to pointy heads, but to many it will seem unconvincing and vague. Times, Sunday Times
The aggressive and coarsely humorous moments are mostly unconvincing.
Her motives and relationships are rendered dry and unconvincing, but her self-absorption rings true.
I puzzled for a minute, then gave a totally unconvincing answer.
Brechtian-style distanciation thus soon emerges as lazy, double-faced strategy on Rose's part: If something is unconvincing, it was meant to be, laying bare the device, speaking as if in quotes and all that film theory doublethink.
The dialogue was unconvincing, partly because it was American actors trying to speak London English.
Once again last night, they were unconvincing. The Sun
It witters on unconvincingly that having next of kin makes the decision less sovereign to the individual involved.
He looks uncomfortable, stalls and waffles unconvincingly about waiting to hear from lenders' underwriters. Times, Sunday Times
‘A vote for Respect is a vote for totalitarians in an unconvincing left wing costume,’ he declared, before giving lukewarm support to the Liberal Democrats, who ‘took a clear anti-war line’.
The dialogue was unconvincing, partly because it was American actors trying to speak London English.
As far as we can tell, all the elimination decisions rest solely with the public for the remainder of X Factor, which leaves Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne with little more to do than squabble amongst themselves in unconvincingly stage-managed ways. X Factor Betting Odds: Simon And Dannii, Sitting In A Tree?
In the end, dogmatic reactions to sex selection are unconvincing, and often rooted in dubious unstated assumptions.
Not the best match in the world - and to be honest the score line flatters us as the performance was rather inconsistent and unconvincing.
There is no indication that they received, or even sought, such information other than the utterly unconvincing say-so of Mr Davis.
This leads to a slightly bizarre and unconvincing fusion of musical forces which all end up clumped awkwardly together.
I think the men in the garage would then maybe smile, but unconvincingly and maybe say, ‘Yeah, all right mate.’
It would also have been wiser if Lee, playing an unconvincing television reporter, had refrained from appearing in the movie himself as his highly recognisable presence unbalances proceedings a little.
The book is tendentious and unconvincing but well-written.
The dialogue and the acting are strained and unconvincing, and far too complacent considering the events under consideration.
Unconvincingly, the Tory leader - mispronouncing the word ‘leadership’ - said he welcomed the chance to put his job on the line.
Absolutely stunning CGI slowly degrades into a very unconvincing PS2 version of the Rock as the Scorpion King.
Male novelists are often accused of writing unconvincing female characters, but this novel has to create a strong protagonist in Tara Mullray.
Although far from dreadful, it's just rather silly, shallow, unconvincing and inconsequential.
Somehow this transmitted itself to the players, who began tweeting similarly ominous warnings, apparently having taken to heart the suggestion that they had been unconvincing and lax. Times, Sunday Times
Though this record is fun, with some neat twists and turns, it remains unconvincing and sounds too much like a thesis on white funk rather than the real thing.
Any talk of American leadership seems hollow and unconvincing. Times, Sunday Times
Benitez had been prepared to use him if necessary on Saturday, with the prospect of overturning Chelsea's 3-1 first leg lead seemingly more remote than catching United, who regained the title ascendancy in unconvincing fashion with their 2-1 win at Sunderland. Soccer Blogs - latest posts
As Mitchell, he is all surface mannerism with no depth, an unconvincing Southern accent in a hat.
Until late in the proceedings, when the story makes an unconvincing segue from hard-edged to soft, "Cripple" is as gleefully vinegary as anything McDonagh has conjured. McDonagh's 'Cripple of Inishmaan': Fiendishly funny sendup of rural Irish life
Finally, Webb's dark prophecies about the law-he calls it a "miscalculation" - are unconvincing: RHRealityCheck.org
This was a so-so sitcom with ambitious but unconvincing dance numbers and wrestling action.
All that remained was an unconvincing Wanderers flurry.
His explanation was unconvincing.
The hype has worked, but the reality is a lumbering, unconvincing tale that is filled with one cliffhanging moment after another but never builds into a satisfying thriller.
He explained somewhat unconvincingly that the company was paying for everything.
The word "unpersuaded" means that you've heard the argument and found it unconvincing. In the Monica Lewinsky scandal — 10 years old now — "Everybody lost, with one exception, or possibly two."
I find Professor Taylor's hypothesis that Miss Rossiter was probably suffering the symptoms of pyelitis on that date most unconvincing.
And the assumption that he had packed away his nuclear kit and abandoned all ambitions still strikes me as deeply unconvincing.
He thought that Alex and Dave Smith were unconvincing tacklers, whereas Coutts in his own central defence was rock-like.
Belatedly recalling her bereaved state, she let out a sharp, unconvincing yelp of woe and stooped to scrape up a handful of dust, which she poured haphazardly over her head. The Mummy Case
In this core assertion, their argument remains unconvincing. The Times Literary Supplement
Mr Patel phoned the University for an explanation, and he was given the usual unconvincing excuses.
Enzo Grecos study of Spartacus on the Strait of Messina is illuminating if unconvincing: Enzo Greco, Spartaco sullo stretto ovvero Le origini di Villa San Giovanni e Fiumara di muro Rome: Gangemi Editore, 1999. The Spartacus War
The script isn't believable, the characters are unconvincing and the plot is not entertaining. The Sun
The matches took place in bad weather and with unconvincing refereeing, which brought about some traumas.
The result is long passages of simplistic monologue explaining basic Marxism in an entirely unconvincing manner, making the characters appear as cardboard cut-outs.
‘But 40 is the new 30,’ insists Sean, rather unconvincingly.
He explained somewhat unconvincingly that the company was paying for everything.
When I explained that I was a journalist, I was unconvincingly told in broken English that I looked like a "picture on a wall" of a rioter in Davos, which I took to mean I looked like some sort of photofit picture. The Guardian World News
People find the government's case unconvincing; they simply do not believe it.
In the later scenes, it grows more formulaic, galloping towards a happy ending with unseemly haste, burdening the actors with unconvincing old age make-up and testing the audience with corny platitudes.
Those who think there should be the promised referendum find these arguments unconvincing to the point of being contemptible. Times, Sunday Times
I love all kinds of films, except the plotless kind with unconvincing acting, shoddy editing and duff music played on synths.
The dialogueless scenario refuses to jell, and is performed by Bebe Neuwirth somewhat unconvincingly, except when she slinkily dances.
The media sharply criticized Toyota's president Saturday for what they called a delayed and unconvincing explanation for the massive WN.com - Business News
When the Nelson powerhouse was introduced, the visitors were on a still unconvincing 71-3.
But when the plot broadens in the second act - with the pair joining forces to take revenge on Ata's aforementioned, good-for-nothing husband - the action becomes farcical and unconvincing.
No matter the improvement at the breakdown yesterday, this is a Lions team which is still monumentally unconvincing in the phase.
Negotiating with buyer as instruct however afraid unconvincing as your price compare unfavorably faith others.
The contemporary story was mildly more believable than the post-war one, where the staging and the costuming were wholly unconvincing. Times, Sunday Times
He offers up his worst side, arguing unconvincingly and half-heartedly.
Mr Patel phoned the University for an explanation, and he was given the usual unconvincing excuses.
Yet Palin unconvincingly blames her political enemies — including those questioning whether she was really the mother of her last child — for forcing her July resignation as governor, for the good of Alaska. 'Rogue' Palin hints at ambitions
I find it ultimately unconvincing, although as I say, the argument may be more subtle in the book.
The farm's entrance was lined with a piece of hopeful, if unconvincing, carpet, designed to disinfect the car tyres as they drive over.
Having talked unconvincingly last month of famous victories that were in fact forgettable and creditable performances that were anything but, he could afford to raise a smile. Times, Sunday Times
The lack of warmth in the Kerzner handholding, is highly unconvincing.
In Raul they have the most exciting young striker in the world although defensively they are unconvincing.
In an otherwise excellent issue about global warming, I found Jeremy Creed's article very unconvincing.
One reviewer finds Perkins' story implausible and unconvincing, except perhaps to conspiracy buffs.
he argued unconvincingly
This is an unconvincing argument. Times, Sunday Times
Inevitably, however, the movie does not have the courage of its cynical convictions and in the final reel reverts to a soupy and unconvincing idealism about the system's essential decency.
It is these human religious constructions that have become unconvincing.
Enthralled by the idea of a super-strong consciousness which turns human blood to lava or moulten iron, Dostoievsky makes Milton's Satan and Nietzsche's blond beast appear quite amateurish and unconvincing; the strong Slav is a reality in the artistic experience of the writer. Dostoievsky's Mystical Terror
For example, to argue that all these crimes require some form of further intent is unconvincing, since that is not true of murder.
His inability to accept his responsibility, and worse still to blame it on civil servants, is a completely unconvincing attempt to cover up abysmal failure. Times, Sunday Times
He suggests something a touch unconvincing about the relaxed, welcoming, friendly atmosphere and how the spectators are encouraged to feel part of the experience. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Patel phoned the University for an explanation, and he was given the usual unconvincing excuses.
I love all kinds of films, except the plotless kind with unconvincing acting, shoddy editing and duff music played on synths.
There was a short-lived fashion for Worcesterberries about ten years ago when they were unconvincingly touted as a rival for brambles or tayberries.
The completely unmoving, unconvincing romance between a wooden Hayden Christensen and an uncharacteristically bland Natalie Portman is only the most obvious clumsiness.
Toyota president Akio Toyoda says he plans to seek the understanding of American customers and lawmakers when he appears before a congressional hearing next week in media sharply criticized Toyota's president Saturday for what they called a delayed and unconvincing explanation for the massive WN.com - Articles related to U.S. grilling to test Toyota chief's mettle
For opponents of the fund that example is unconvincing.
Here we had unconvincing stop-motion dinosaurs and unconvincing monkey people (Pakuni) and unconvincing guys in lizard suits (Sleestak) running around, but Enik hit the proper bottom notes. Cinequest
Suffice to say the next time Sarah was co-hosting with John she humorously chided her colleague for such fustiness, to which John mumbled a splendidly unconvincing apology. Archive 2006-04-01
First off, Goddard is much too old to be playing the mother of young children and Matthew Cottle makes a far from attractive Clive, so this illicit coupling is as unappetising as it is unconvincing.
Could it be that you're finding it all just a teeny-weeny bit unconvincing?
I find this rather unconvincing. Times, Sunday Times
Much of the writing is brilliant, and had the three other voices been allowed to carry the story, it might have been a thoughtful and unusual novel; but the inept and unconvincing futuristics bring it to grief. The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna
But for all the overblown peril, the attempt at a nail-biting climax is wholly unconvincing. Times, Sunday Times
We had a sheriff who played Santa Claus every year decked out in an unconvincing, moth-eaten, red suit.
That "I suppose" is unconvincing; it is a too obvious contrivance. Ford Madox Ford
The lack of warmth in the Kerzner handholding, is highly unconvincing.
as unconvincing as a forced smile
As the Readers and Writers Festival Closing Performance, Munro read a yet-unpublished story from what she is saying - unconvincingly - will be her last book.
I was not impressed with his evidence, which I found to be vague, and unconvincing in the extreme.
It is unconvincing and essentially extraneous material.
Also, your gestures have grown constrained: unconvincing and simply wrong.
Porter et al. acknowledge that theoretical basis of repression is weak and unconvincing.
Once again last night, they were unconvincing. The Sun
I can't complain, " answered Wilson unconvincingly. " When are you going to sell me that car?
But their efforts became lost amid a forest of faintly unconvincing football motions.
Amid all the rehearsals there are love triangles, back-stabbing, popular girls and a very unconvincing school playboy.
On the way to Vegas, we get a fair amount of lame character development, unconvincing drama, and sporadic comedy that's low on the laugh meter.
To be honest, nothing about the trip to Milan would, save for the hope that Italy continue their unconvincing form under their new manager.
The smile and bonhomie are increasingly unconvincing, the fury barely suppressed. Times, Sunday Times
This argument is unconvincing because it contains several critical flaws in logic.
Those who think there should be the promised referendum find these arguments unconvincing to the point of being contemptible. Times, Sunday Times
The alternative health section is informative, but very unconvincing. Times, Sunday Times
But the evidence initially offered was generally unconvincing. Times, Sunday Times
I found the principal love story to be quite unconvincing.
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.
Instead a unforced knock-on from a punt into their 22 put Kendal on the back foot and unconvincing defence allowed Cooper in.
Brazil labored to another unconvincing victory at the World Cup on Sunday, qualifying for the second round by beating Australia 2-0 and substituting an ineffective Ronaldo for the second game in a row.
Mr Patel phoned the University for an explanation, and he was given the usual unconvincing excuses.
All of this being ‘merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative’.
He explained somewhat unconvincingly that the company was paying for everything.
There was a short-lived fashion for Worcesterberries about ten years ago when they were unconvincingly touted as a rival for brambles or tayberries.
Barlby moved back to the top of division four in unconvincing fashion with a 1-1 draw at bottom club Acomb Celtic.
His seduction technique is unvaryingly frivolous, not to say unconvincing.
The unconvincing swagger of maturity has been the pretend independence of a adolescent: a strained relationship with the parent country: resentful but at the same time needful.
The special effects were not unconvincing; they were risible, especially the scenes of the wealthy giantess stalking the countryside.
The Games were marvellous but talk of a legacy of swelling enthusiasm for energetic pursuits was always unconvincing defiance of Olympic history. Times, Sunday Times
Eventually he mumbled some avoidance words that were sterlingly unconvincing. Great moments in the republican separation of powers
The time-travel scenes are unconvincing: Will runs into a Viking who speaks by grunting noncommittally and runs into some seventeenth-century Brits who speak in unaccented modern English. Archive 2007-10-01
I've always been frustrated by the ending we saw in the cinema, which strikes me as tonally appropriate, but utterly unconvincing.
They produced some rather unconvincing explanations for the system failure.
They produced some rather unconvincing explanations for the system failure.
His denial of responsibility for the accident was unconvincing.
A good actor with the right material, he is simply miscast and unconvincing as a predatory seducer.
Often premature and unconvincing generalisations are made from rather more limited and partial changes.
The dialogue, however, is quite stagey and unconvincing.
Her unconvincing speech was a loosely-connected string of truisms and cliches, with nary a story to give it substance.
The 85 minutes of laboured monologues and unconvincing heroism are as entertaining as a pet's funeral.
What maintained some uneasy, if unconvincing, equilibrium between the two was the portrayal of the Soviet Cold War threat as a rationalization for American measures in pursuit of both.
They produced some rather unconvincing explanations for the system failure.
I thought the plot line of that play was very unconvincing.
The more they blustered, the more unconvincing they sounded.
It was only those happy with a win, unconvincing or otherwise.
Amid all the rehearsals there are love triangles, back-stabbing, popular girls and a very unconvincing school playboy.
I love all kinds of films, except the plotless kind with unconvincing acting, shoddy editing and duff music played on synths.
The stuff on Mithraism from the Catholic Encycolpedia was stunningly unconvincing. Carry-Over Thread
The exhibition is unconvincing, as well, in its overall plan.
Okinawa by electing a mayor Sunday who campaigned on a promise to oppose the media sharply criticized Toyota's president Saturday for what they called a delayed and unconvincing explanation for the massive WN.com - Business News
They produced some rather unconvincing explanations for the system failure.
In addition, I found the claimant's evidence generally to be unconvincing and unreliable.
She managed a weak, unconvincing smile.
Do we think there's no such thing as bad art: poorly written novels, cliched and unoriginal paintings, unconvincingly acted films?
Schuster segues into the novelist's conceit of placing herself into the subjective space of her biographees and this is both unconvincing and irritating.
So the Journal's assurance that there is no story here is profoundly unconvincing.
Some of the discussion in the book is lightweight and unconvincing.
The correct view is exactly the opposite-if McCain knows the truth, doesn't really believe what he's saying and tells lies unconvincingly, that is evidence of the far deeper corruption of the man. Later On
I've always been frustrated by the ending we saw in the cinema, which strikes me as tonally appropriate, but utterly unconvincing.
On the subject of the bombshell quotes from Barack Obama about "bankrupting" the coal industry and making electric rates "skyrocket" - about which I audio excerpt of which Hugh has since posted separately - the San Francisco Chronicle is now furiously trying to cover its collective fanny in a spectacularly unconvincing fashion. Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Robert Douglas, on the other hand, has been unconvincing and still has some work to do to convince the Celtic support he'll be the man for years to come.
When the hoser father goes to look for her he is assaulted by a unconvincing rubber skeleton that pops out of the oven. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Despite the flighty beginning tone; the thin, unconvincing creations wandering about as her needy daughters; and a script that could clearly have used some oversight -- the number of times characters murmur "are you all right?" to one another is in fact amazing, if Mrs. Pritchard herself is not -- the miniseries has hardened into a gritty tale of betrayal, ambition, misprized love and warring loyalties, all of it absorbing. Strange Days at 10 Downing
His choreography is banal to the point of insipidity, and the acting he requests from his dancers is utterly unconvincing.
It seems a sanctimonious, unconvincing argument. Times, Sunday Times
Everything is so desperately contrived and unconvincing that you really don't care what happens, and any scares along the way are as frightening as a close friend shouting ‘boo’.
Their denial was unconvincing in view of the physical evidence linking them to the bombing.
After another unconvincing display during his reign as caretaker manager - the club has won only five of his 10 league games in charge - he was typically unforthcoming.
Looking unconvincingly dissolute, he is trying to recover from being "morbidly alcoholic," and his doctor encourages him to write the novel we see unfolding in flashback.
Much of the book is dull: and Fathom's conversation is (to adopt a cant word) extremely unconvincing. The English Novel
Actually blinded by prosthetics, he walks the fine line between acting and mimicry, giving a performance that is neither stifled by imitation, nor unconvincing.

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