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- noun The quality of being
unpersuasive ; lack ofpersuasiveness .
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- noun inability to persuade
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Examples
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The unpersuasiveness of those comments have persuaded me this might actually be a goodidea.
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The unpersuasiveness of those comments have persuaded me this might actually be a goodidea.
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One thing the opponents of Don't Ask, Don't Tell have going for them is the unpersuasiveness of the military's claim that gay servicemembers will undermine cohesion and military effectiveness.
Adam Winkler: Will the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Ruling Stand? 2010
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One thing the opponents of Don't Ask, Don't Tell have going for them is the unpersuasiveness of the military's claim that gay servicemembers will undermine cohesion and military effectiveness.
Adam Winkler: Will the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Ruling Stand? 2010
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One thing the opponents of Don't Ask, Don't Tell have going for them is the unpersuasiveness of the military's claim that gay servicemembers will undermine cohesion and military effectiveness.
Adam Winkler: Will the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Ruling Stand? 2010
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We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness, of eloquence behind which lies no Love.
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We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness, of eloquence behind which lies no love.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index Grenville Kleiser 1910
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We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness of eloquence behind which lies no love.
Beautiful Thoughts Henry Drummond 1874
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We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness, of eloquence behind which lies no Love.
The Greatest Thing In the World and Other Addresses Henry Drummond 1874
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Berlinski -- who argues that computer simulations of Darwinian evolution fail when they are honest and succeed only when they are not -- says the unpersuasiveness of the literature on the subject is well known.
Sandwalk 2008
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