unreliable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- unreliability noun
- unreliableness noun
- unreliably adverb
Etymology
Origin of unreliable
Example Sentences
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As for working out one's geographic position, though, Chris Shaw, co-founder and chief executive of Advanced Navigation, says his firm's tech can use alternatives when GPS proves unavailable or unreliable.
From BBC
When she recognizes a village, “where my father lost our red Shorthorn in a game of forty-five,” we suspect that money is short and her father unreliable.
Persian sources are thin and probably unreliable about his war service, including whether he actually saw combat in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The challenge, as explained to Northwestern Now by the center’s founder and professor Erik Nisbet, is that standard measures of democratic commitment are unreliable.
From Salon
Leah’s book, The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism, is thorough, yet often unreliable, and obviously one-sided in support of the spirits.
From Literature
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