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Another word for unreliable

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Adjective

  1. So weak or defective as to be liable to fail

    See also:

    strong

  2. Not to be depended on

    See also:

    trust

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Another word for unreliable

Modifier

  1. Not reliable; said of persons

    See also:

    dishonest

  2. Not reliable; said of facts and objects

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Sentence Examples

  • Thayers Dawn of Italian Independence (Boston, 1893) is gushing and not always accurate; C. Cants Dell indipendenza italiana cronistoria (Naples, 1872-1877) is reactionary and often unreliable; V.

  • John Fiske, The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America (2 vols., Boston, 1900) is admirable in its generalizations but unreliable in its details.

  • Our sources fail us, and we are at the mercy of doubtful rumours and more or less unreliable anecdotes.

  • The fall of Sana made a deep impression t Constantinople, every effort was made to hasten out reinforcements, the veteran Ahmad Feizi Pasha was nominated to the supreme command, and Anatolian troops in place of the unreliable Syrian element were detailed.

  • Instinct told him that his old ally the khan of the Crimea was unreliable, and that the tsar of Muscovy was his natural protector, yet he could not make up his mind to abandon the one or turn to the other.

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