unreliable
not reliable; not to be relied or depended on.
Origin of unreliable
1Other words for unreliable
Other words from unreliable
- un·re·li·a·bil·i·ty, un·re·li·a·ble·ness, noun
- un·re·li·a·bly, adverb
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How to use unreliable in a sentence
For Miller, those differing adjustments cause lots of variability both across different polls, and even in the same surveys over time, rendering them highly unreliable guides to which candidates lead or trail by what margin.
How a data scientist beat the polls by nailing the Georgia senate race | Shawn Tully | January 9, 2021 | FortuneRight now, facial recognition is considered too unreliable to be used as evidence anywhere.
Facial recognition still can’t prove someone’s identity | Stan Horaczek | January 8, 2021 | Popular-ScienceHowever, strict browser privacy settings and AdBlocks have made this method increasingly unreliable.
What affiliate marketers have missed about Google Analytics | Laurent Malka | January 5, 2021 | Search Engine WatchSelf-reported measures of alcohol and cigarette consumption can be unreliable.
Study: Smoking bans saved countless lives — could they have increased drunk driving? | Jerusalem Demsas | December 24, 2020 | VoxAlthough accuracy increases in the weeks after infection, many of the early antibody tests were inconsistent and unreliable.
Could you talk a minute about the notion of being an unreliable narrator?
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination | Mindy Farabee | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut Winter is dead, Clapton is tired of life on the road, and King unreliable in concert.
The results played right into the hands of those who wanted to portray the opposition as unreliable.
Digital Doublethink: Playing Truth or Dare with Putin, Assad and ISIS | Christopher Dickey, Anna Nemtsova | November 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTExcerpts of his video statements fill the highlight reels when unreliable confessions are the subject of TV programs.
The reports are often unreliable, however, leading to confusion.
They were utterly unreliable, yet their tale-bearing in Delhi might bring instant disaster to Malcolm and his native comrade.
The Red Year | Louis TracyBut that man E., whom I found living in the same house with Nold, impressed me as rather unreliable.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanShe arrived, indeed, with lungs fairly collapsed and her heart entirely unreliable.
The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts RinehartAbner Levens was locked in the unreliable jail of Coldriver village, and a watch placed over him.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandBut an unreliable boy at our school matched this history from the unwritten archives of his vulgar relatives.
Papers from Overlook-House | Casper Almore
British Dictionary definitions for unreliable
/ (ˌʌnrɪˈlaɪəbəl) /
not reliable; untrustworthy: an unreliable witness
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