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Definition
powerfully persuasive- It is difficult to decide because both sides offer cogent arguments.
cogent = powerfully persuasive
- He makes a cogent argument, but the premises are flawed.
- Or does my friend think that by aspersing a witness for the prosecution he will shake the evidence, the abundant and cogent evidence, against his client?Albert Camus -- The Stranger
- He has dealt profoundly with the disaster that has overwhelmed our native tribal society, and has argued cogently the case of our own complicity in this disaster.Alan Paton -- Cry, the Beloved Country
- McMullen came out of Japan racked by nightmares and so nervous that he was barely able to speak cogently.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- I'm out of anything that passes for a cogent argument, so I come back with the first thing that pops into my head.Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
- There are yet other and more cogent reasons which prevent any great change from being easily effected in the principles of a democratic people.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- But listening to her cogently mapping out what we needed to indict, a tantalizing thought took hold of me.James Patterson -- 1st to Die
- Were the ends of nature so great and cogent, as to exact this immense sacrifice of men?Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- The more dilapidated the buildings and the filthier the streets, the more cogent were the directions.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- As a defiant statement of poetry's gift for telling truth but telling it slant, this is both cogent and corrective.Seamus Heaney -- Crediting Poetry
- But the last term of the definition is still more cogent, as coupled with the first.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- But from the time that a judge has refused to apply any given law in a case, that law loses a portion of its moral cogency.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
- Among other illustrations of its truth which might be cited, Scotland will furnish a cogent example.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- She looked at Clyde so tensely, so urgently, that he felt quite shaken by the force of the cogency of the request.Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
- Caesar gave way before such cogent reasoning, and the cardinals were consequently invited to dinner.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- What you say sounds good, and it would be difficult to And any truly cogent objection.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- He had a mind that worked in cogent and predictable ways but he brought to his argument a profound integrity, a total commitment to his belief in Pig's guilt.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- I grasped how others came to the matter at hand directly, and who made a set of arguments succinctly and cogently.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- Mr. Gradgrind did not seem favourably impressed by these cogent remarks.Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
cogent = powerfully persuasive
cogently = in a logical manner that is powerful and persuasive