The prime minister denied recently, and rather unconvincingly, that there was any problem.
The team has struggled unconvincingly for much of the season.
It is especially alert to inconsistencies or slippages, but also to places where disagreements are unconvincingly resolved or controversial issues are glossed over.
Yawelmani, then, illustrates a situation that would counterexemplify sympathy theory - but utterly unconvincingly.
It was clearly damaging enough evidence that in the trial both men tried, most unconvincingly, to deny that this event had taken place.
The pilgrim might be half a tourist, but the pilgrimage organisers tried, often unconvincingly, to separate the pilgrim from the tourist experience.
In both cases a creed of benevolence unconvincingly masks an underlying assertion of privilege.