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Unconvincing   /ˌənkənvˈɪnsɪŋ/   Listen
Unconvincing

adjective
1.
Not convincing.  Synonym: flimsy.  "As unconvincing as a forced smile"
2.
Having a probability too low to inspire belief.  Synonyms: improbable, unbelievable, unlikely.






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"Unconvincing" Quotes from Famous Books



... influence of environment. The fixed polarity of cuttings from full grown stems cannot be destroyed; it is the expression of previous development. Vochting speaks of polarity as a fixed inherited character. This is an unconvincing conclusion, as nothing can be deduced from our present knowledge as to the causes which led up to polarity. We know that the fertilised egg, like the embryo, is fixed at one end by which it hangs freely in the embryo-sac and afterwards in the endosperm. From the first, therefore, the ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

... bit of unconvincing accuracy. Mrs. Haxton has always been an essential part of the scheme. I am here solely because I did not think Mr. Fenshawe should be allowed to go alone—alone in the sense that these people were strangers ...
— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy

... unflinchingly extolling the merits of his undesired wares. A spirit of wistful emulation took possession of the author; why could he not live up to the cold stern name he had adopted? Why must he sit here weakly and listen to this weary, unconvincing tirade, why could he not be Mark Mellowkent for a few brief moments, and meet this ...
— The Toys of Peace • Saki

... rub shoulders; the descriptions of the wistful beautiful West of Ireland in autumn and winter; and above all the horses. Added to all this there are Sinn Fein raids, real and imaginary, to bring things up to date. A rather unconvincing plot, with a dash of Great Expectations in it, yet offers a situation which has plenty of amusing possibilities. Honor and Evie Nutting, two middle-aged spinsters, find themselves the possessors of eight thousand a year, on condition that they spend it all. That sounds, of course, a very ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, December 15, 1920 • Various

... adorned her throat, a scarf of some gauzy material, also mauve, floated around her neck. She was wearing a hat with a wing, which he was guiltily conscious of having once admired, and which she attempted, in an airy but exceedingly unconvincing fashion, to explain. ...
— The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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