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UK
/ˌʌndɪpˈɛndəbəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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liable to be erroneous or misleading
an undependable generalization -
not worthy of reliance or trust
in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable
an undependable assistant
How To Use undependable In A Sentence
- She asked, quickly averting the subject from James' opinion of his undependable mother and late father.
- It is just that such lore is so undependable that it is not in the forefront of their minds.
- Put more baldly, he was recognisably mixed-up; and although that made him maddeningly undependable as a politician, it humanised him as a man.
- She married a man who was erratic, undependable and bad at paying bills - ‘Lots of women like these chaps who are buccaneers, and don't realise they aren't good husband material’.
- Sympathetic but far from uncritical, Simon described Douglas as a ‘shy’ and ‘intensely private man’ whose accounts of his own life were thoroughly undependable.
- an undependable assistant
- Journalists tend to stockpile information, and it leaks out through our attempts at communication like air around an undependable vacuum seal.
- In the past the productions of necessities were very low, inefficient and undependable.
- A gymnast must be both skillful and careful and never gamble, never rely on providence or luck - in short on anything that is undependable or fortuitous.
- All this made the business sector an undependable contributor to economic growth.
