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Definition of unreliable in English: unreliableadjective ʌnrɪˈlʌɪəb(ə)lˌənrəˈlaɪəb(ə)l Not able to be relied upon. 不可靠的；靠不住的 他懒惰又不可靠。 不可靠的信息。 Example sentencesExamples - It says the numbers would be too unreliable because relatives would not contact them if their loved ones had been found.
- The Railtrack work has to continue, and that makes for unreliable timetables.
- But word of mouth is often unreliable and by the time they reached town, all supplies had run out.
- These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and unreliable.
- But worst of all the judge's ruling makes a martyr out of a thoroughly unreliable journalist.
- For we will not be able to continue if we are unaffordable, or unreliable in broad terms.
- However, sundials are a surprisingly unreliable means of telling the time.
- The July meeting which should have been held in a garden was again inside due to the unreliable summer weather.
- A few curse the memory of them as clunky, unstable, slow, unreliable and inherently unsafe.
- My body feels older somehow, like a battered and slightly unreliable car.
- The traders had complained the system was unreliable and said they had no proof that it had discouraged crime.
- Such knowledge as management did possess was vague or unreliable and seldom committed to writing.
- The evidence for them was far too unreliable to have any credibility.
- Dozens of patients had their operations postponed because of the unreliable operating tables.
- It is difficult to blame people for spending holidays abroad, when the weather here is so unreliable.
- The experience of abuse often makes people difficult, all too easy to smear as unreliable witnesses.
- Then, it was accepted that a new car would be unreliable and poorly made.
- By contrast the state markets were unreliable with regard to delivery times, quality, and choice.
- What a pity that Ms Evans' information comes from such an unreliable source.
- Research has shown, however, that recall is unreliable and rife with inaccuracies and biases.
Synonyms undependable, untrustworthy, irresponsible, reckless, fickle, capricious, irregular, erratic, unpredictable, inconstant, mutable, faithless, untrue, flighty, slippery questionable, open to question, open to doubt, doubtful, dubious, suspect, unsound, tenuous, flimsy, weak, unsubstantial, implausible, unconvincing, unsupported, unsubstantiated, fallible, shaky, rocky risky, chancy, disreputable, specious, defective inaccurate, vague, untrue, incorrect, wide of the mark, off-target, wrong informal iffy, dicey British informal dodgy
Derivativesadverb Miller is a first-rate intellectual but an unreliably quirky, quixotically overcerebral, hit-or-miss director. Example sentencesExamples - The average wind turbine produces less electricity in a year than the average family car: they produce high - cost electricity unreliably.
- Therefore, many of the missiles crashed or performed unreliably.
- First, data on law firm clientele are sporadically and unreliably available.
- But another part of me likes having a backup network, one that I can reach, if unreliably, from across the street.
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Definition of unreliable in US English: unreliableadjectiveˌənrəˈlīəb(ə)lˌənrəˈlaɪəb(ə)l Not able to be relied upon. 不可靠的；靠不住的 他懒惰又不可靠。 不可靠的信息。 Example sentencesExamples - The evidence for them was far too unreliable to have any credibility.
- But word of mouth is often unreliable and by the time they reached town, all supplies had run out.
- Then, it was accepted that a new car would be unreliable and poorly made.
- But worst of all the judge's ruling makes a martyr out of a thoroughly unreliable journalist.
- The Railtrack work has to continue, and that makes for unreliable timetables.
- A few curse the memory of them as clunky, unstable, slow, unreliable and inherently unsafe.
- What a pity that Ms Evans' information comes from such an unreliable source.
- Such knowledge as management did possess was vague or unreliable and seldom committed to writing.
- For we will not be able to continue if we are unaffordable, or unreliable in broad terms.
- By contrast the state markets were unreliable with regard to delivery times, quality, and choice.
- Dozens of patients had their operations postponed because of the unreliable operating tables.
- The traders had complained the system was unreliable and said they had no proof that it had discouraged crime.
- It is difficult to blame people for spending holidays abroad, when the weather here is so unreliable.
- The July meeting which should have been held in a garden was again inside due to the unreliable summer weather.
- The experience of abuse often makes people difficult, all too easy to smear as unreliable witnesses.
- Research has shown, however, that recall is unreliable and rife with inaccuracies and biases.
- My body feels older somehow, like a battered and slightly unreliable car.
- These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and unreliable.
- It says the numbers would be too unreliable because relatives would not contact them if their loved ones had been found.
- However, sundials are a surprisingly unreliable means of telling the time.
Synonyms undependable, untrustworthy, irresponsible, reckless, fickle, capricious, irregular, erratic, unpredictable, inconstant, mutable, faithless, untrue, flighty, slippery questionable, open to question, open to doubt, doubtful, dubious, suspect, unsound, tenuous, flimsy, weak, unsubstantial, implausible, unconvincing, unsupported, unsubstantiated, fallible, shaky, rocky
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