undependable

[ UK /ˌʌndɪpˈɛndəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. liable to be erroneous or misleading
    an undependable generalization
  2. not worthy of reliance or trust
    in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable
    an undependable assistant
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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.
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