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Unreliable   /ˌənrɪlˈaɪəbəl/  /ˌənrilˈaɪəbəl/   Listen
Unreliable

adjective
1.
Liable to be erroneous or misleading.  Synonym: undependable.
2.
Not worthy of reliance or trust.  Synonym: undependable.  "An undependable assistant"
3.
Dangerously unstable and unpredictable.  Synonym: treacherous.  "An unreliable trestle"
4.
Lacking a sense of responsibility.



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"Unreliable" Quotes from Famous Books



... And don't believe I can do that sort of work right along. Next time it may be a clean double miss. Ducks are unreliable things. I've known the best of shots to miss, time and again. Ralph, step up and toe the mark. You're next on the docket," laughed Frank, as he hastily replaced the discharged shells with ...
— The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron • Graham B. Forbes
... his defective eyesight. So a man given to exaggeration, who is not able to report truthfully what he remembers, can not be a good botanist, since this defect in introspection will render his observation of the plants unreliable. ...
— The Story of the Mind • James Mark Baldwin
... memory has become vague and unreliable. Sometimes I think of the colonel, but without feeling again the terrors of those early days. All the doctors to whom I have described his afflictions have been unanimous as regards the inevitable end in store for the invalid, and were indeed ...
— Brazilian Tales • Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
... following pages endeavoured to resist the temptation to weave a web of pleasant but unreliable fiction round actual occurrences. That which is here set forth has been derived from facts, and in almost every case from manuscript records. It aims at telling the story of an eventful and exciting period according to historical and not imaginative occurrence. There are extant many novels and ...
— King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 • E. Keble Chatterton
... published by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge. When he had finished the Arabic, i.e. somewhere about 1724 or 1725, he cut his own name in Roman type and placed it at the foot of the specimen. This attracted the notice of Samuel Palmer, the author of a very unreliable History of Printing, and with Palmer, Caslon worked for some time, but at length transferred his services to William Bowyer, for whom he cut the types of ...
— A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 • Henry R. Plomer


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