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Another word for unreliable

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unreliable

modif.

Not reliable; said of persons
undependable, irresponsible, unstable, wavering, deceitful, tricky, shifty, furtive, underhanded, untrue, fickle, giddy, capricious, untrustworthy, vacillating, fallible, weak, unpredictable; see also dishonest 1, 2.
Not reliable; said of facts and objects
deceptive, delusive, hallucinatory, plausible, specious, tricky, unsound, untrue, inaccurate, erroneous, hollow, pretended, sham, pseudo, makeshift, meretricious, misleading.

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Another word for unreliable

adjective

So weak or defective as to be liable to fail:
trick, undependable. See strong
Not to be depended on:
undependable, untrustworthy. See trust

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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.
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.
Standardized testing is an unreliable way to measure students' intelligence and cognitive ablility.
His Historiska Skrifter, which are a record of Swedish history, mainly autobiographical, during the greater part of the 18th century, is excellent as literature, but somewhat unreliable as an historical document, especially in the later parts.

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