as in incredulous
too extraordinary or improbable to believe
the excuse for her tardiness was too unconvincing to be accepted
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Recent Examples of unconvincing
The time and date are accurate, and the place, but the rest of it is wholly unconvincing.
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David Phelan, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
This is not just a problem of unconvincing rhetoric.
—Alexander Kustov, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2025
Some members of President Trump's base found the review unconvincing.
—Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 11 July 2025
But even if Cunha’s goal tally drops at United, his positivity and a desire to drag the team up the pitch can only help to inject some conviction into an unconvincing front line.
—Thom Harris, New York Times, 1 June 2025
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David Phelan, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
This is not just a problem of unconvincing rhetoric.
—Alexander Kustov, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2025
Some members of President Trump's base found the review unconvincing.
—Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 11 July 2025
But even if Cunha’s goal tally drops at United, his positivity and a desire to drag the team up the pitch can only help to inject some conviction into an unconvincing front line.
—Thom Harris, New York Times, 1 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for unconvincing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unconvincing
Adjective
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The Origin of the Moscow Mule The Moscow Mule has an incredulous origin story.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
20 Oct. 2025
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The prospect of losing at least $170 million in annual revenue would be taken much more seriously than angry, incredulous letters to the editor.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Just glad the world will now get to see what these incredible individuals next to me and off-camera have created.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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We’ve been given so many incredible opportunities, so now the main thing for us is to share with other people.—
Sophie Williams,
Billboard,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Their unlikely friendship ended in February 1987, when Warhol died suddenly after a complicated gall bladder operation.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Oct. 2025
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While the Hong Kong listing should enhance the company’s liquidity and visibility, Zephirin added that a valuation re-rating is unlikely without meaningful gains in capital efficiency or strategy execution.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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To Nkrumah, unifying Africa was the logical next step, no more implausible than what had just been achieved.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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On a test called IntPhys, which requires AI models to identify if the actions happening in a video are physically plausible or implausible, V-JEPA was nearly 98% accurate.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Five years on, and somehow, the American economy has not only avoided a contraction but has managed to grow—an outcome many investors thought impossible.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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But competing with Swift is basically impossible for anyone, which makes this report a little hard to believe.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But for Dylan, going from Jew to Jesus freak—however slack a Jew he’d been—was no more questionable or embarrassing to him than going from acoustic to electric.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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But Gates said that past investments fighting climate change have been misplaced, and too much good money has been put into expensive and questionable efforts.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In many ways, that scene kind of represents the entire show, or at least what our intention was with it, something ridiculous juxtaposed with something, hopefully, very real.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
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The idea that trading somehow held it back is ridiculous.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
26 Oct. 2025
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Enduring hunger alongside heavy, unbelievable sounds of explosions, some of the relatives sheltering in our house decided to prepare their bags and head south.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
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The new homeowner shared the unbelievable first walk-through in a viral TikTok video, detailing the unexpected level of mess left behind.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Unconvincing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unconvincing. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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