How To Use Unreliable In A Sentence

These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and unreliable.
Mrs May claimed that evidence from the blonde-haired victim, who had had a baby since her ordeal, was unreliable.
In his 1982 "Secondary Currents," which is described in the film's title credits as a "film noir," Rose pushes the sound and image concerns of structuralist filmmakers by creating a work that is "imageless": on a black screen, white subtitles translate the gibberish of the unreliable narrator in the voice-over. Baltimore City Paper
Never overlook the significance of a power supply - an underpowered system will be prone not only to unreliable operation, but also to component damage.
The experience of abuse often makes people difficult, all too easy to smear as unreliable witnesses.

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He's totally unreliable as a source of information.
Local factors complicated identities and made remoteness from the centre an unreliable guide to political complexion.
This unreliable cycle makes grouse moors unsuitable as investments. Times, Sunday Times
Pain ( "mastodynia") is an unreliable tool in determining the presence or absence of breast cancer, but may be indicative of other breast health issues. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
MIDI technology and digital synths have replaced creaky old unreliable analogue methods.
The 90% of temperature stations which are unreliable are used to adulterate by cross reference the very small number of reliable temperature stations. Tom's trick and experimental design
It is here that she meets her second husband or partner, a dodgy, unreliable character.
This deliberate emphasis on the young people's unreliable and hurtful past relationships poses a dilemma for residential workers.
As mentioned, SIMMONS takes a step forward from "The Terror" here; by introducing an unreliable narrator, he successfully manages to blur the line between facts and fiction and thus piquing reader's interest. Archive 2009-12-01
Such knowledge as management did possess was vague or unreliable and seldom committed to writing.
It was not acted upon as the information was deemed unreliable, a source said. The Sun
And he was an unreliable ambassador for California, with only the Oaklawn victory to show for nine trips out of state.
Why oh why oh why did the Yankees think it was wise to pay $82.5 million to this 34-year-old pitcher, who has proven himself so unreliable and ineffective that the mere mention of his name causes unflappable New Yorkers to seethe? Sympathy for A.J. Is Not Tolerated Here
Aspects of the revolt gave further illustration of the unreliable loyalty of sections of the armed forces.
Japan has tried to wean itself away from expensive and sometimes unreliable imported oil by going nuclear. Times, Sunday Times
The suggestibility of and ease with which young children can be ‘coached’ has created an environment where children are often perceived as unreliable in their testimony.
What makes Wikipedia unreliable is that it can not be controlled. UberWikipedia « BuzzMachine
They were large, costly, rather unreliable and required a dedicated data processing team to support them.
He warned that not all poorly sorted rocks were true glacial tillites and thus were unreliable indicators of past climate and continental positioning.
His sudden departure had demonstrated how unreliable he was.
ORANGE residents will head to the polls today to protest against a council they describe as untrustworthy, unreliable and out of touch with the needs of the average person in the street, according to local polling data obtained by the Central Western Daily. Central Western Daily
However, sundials are a surprisingly unreliable means of telling the time.
The Railtrack work has to continue, and that makes for unreliable timetables.
If you do not clear your throat regularly your voice tends to be rough and unreliable. M.E. and You - a self-help plan
There are areas within the report that we believe are based on untested and unreliable individual anecdotes.
If the programme were an English literature text, the first question you would ask would be about the unreliable narrator. Times, Sunday Times
In his letter he warns that government predictions about immigration and population growth have proved unreliable. Times, Sunday Times
The trouble with heliotherapy, for those who live in northern Europe, is that there is just not enough sunshine or, more precisely, strong natural sunlight is too unreliable.
Thereafter, he appeared to be trying too hard to wring something extra out of a poor and often unreliable car. Times, Sunday Times
Generic, national polls remain unreliable for reading individual House, and even Senate, races, not to mention the other challenges of modern polling, to correctly measure actual turnout, to actually obtain polling answers from likely voters, and so on. Sound Politics: Republicans Picking Up Steam As Election Day Nears
The mail here's really slow and unreliable.
Neither are unreliable to the point of forgetting an appointment completely.
Now a report that handwriting tests could a competitor to the familiar, but unreliable lie detector.
These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and unreliable.
It would be ironic if courts, seeing opposing expert witnesses giving odds of correct identification differing a million-fold (105: 1 versus 1011: 1), were to decide that DNA evidence is hopelessly unreliable, and turn instead to eye-witness identification (odds of correct identification diazonium salt -- couples to enzyme tyrosine groups Archive 2004-12-01
Where the distinction between reliable and unreliable information is unclear, quackery, soothsaying, and magical thinking thrive.
Likewise, observing the appearance of feeding tube aspirate is also unreliable because gastric contents can look similar to respiratory secretions.
Many backbenchers also oppose windfarms, which they say are costly and unreliable. The Sun
I suspect that the joystick will prove to be fragile and unreliable, but I don't have any data to support that.
He wanted to go south, but his van was unreliable and he was flat broke.
and plants from tropical regions including certain palms can be surprisingly winter hardy, but plants from the Mediterranean such as cistus and rosemary have increased vulnerability and are much more unreliable. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
It's patently designed to pour scorn on the English judicial process and courtroom procedure as unreliable systems, leading guiltless men to end up in prison.
Film stars are notorious for being unreliable, unpunctual, and full of themselves.
His sudden departure demonstrates that he's unreliable/how unreliable he is.
Any such extrapolation based on one incident only is a most unscientific and unreliable basis for projections.
The present situation is confusing, unreliable and unfair. Times, Sunday Times
Aspiring thaumaturges please note that your spells are notoriously unreliable and that even if you have reached the required magic level, they are still liable to fail from time to time.
THE most unreliable appliance in British homes is the standalone cooker, a poll has found. The Sun
Diplomats can be a notoriously unreliable and misleading source of information.
Statistics can be notoriously unreliable, particularly in a sport as emotionally excitable as football.
While it is true that existing solutions are probably sufficient for the casual user (although we are still faster, more reliable and have bluetooth support) – when you need to use a mobile business card for * business*, you cannot, must not and will not use a solution that is unreliable across platforms, gimmicky or iPhone-only. BeamME Pro Update Hits the App Store
This unreliable cycle makes grouse moors unsuitable as investments. Times, Sunday Times
If the programme were an English literature text, the first question you would ask would be about the unreliable narrator. Times, Sunday Times
Dismissal of the last piece of evidence as unreliable would severely affect our case.
Although the Internet can be an excellent source of up to date and authoritative information much of it is unchecked and possibly unreliable.
Until recently, delivery to the mainland was at times unreliable but a new courier service is in place and next day delivery is guaranteed.
The fact that the medical evidence has proved so unreliable adds to the scandal. Times, Sunday Times
I shall prove to you that the witness is quite unreliable.
Brown is very unreliable; but to give the devil his due, he is a first - class mechanic.
More than half of the young women use unreliable contraceptives or none at all.
Remote workers, however, are typically connected over slow, unreliable wired or wireless networks.
In the “stark” mind-set, it is as if our very sense of sight, all those subtle shapes and shades, becomes treacherous and unreliable. In the Valley of the Shadow
This unreliable cycle makes grouse moors unsuitable as investments. Times, Sunday Times
She knew her foster brother was unreliable.
But Zeno would be easy to read were he merely reliably unreliable: he would be a hypocrite and a fool.
Beware of intuition and gut instincts, they are completely unreliable.
And the story is told by a possibly slightly unreliable narrator, which is a nice touch.
Because we read this diary in installments, like Anne, our assessment of his plot undergoes its own shocks: we may well wish to write him off as a stock character, the typical misguided liberal in a postcolonial novel--an urge supported by David's unreliable narrative voice--but his willingness to admit wrongdoing and decenter himself calls our responses into question. The Voyage Home
The careful historian soon learns that juicy stories often have to be jettisoned when sources prove unreliable. Times, Sunday Times
Thanks in part to the rapacious greed injected into war-fighting by the liberal use of for-profit armed "security" companies, a brutal, unaccountable and unreliable swagger is increasingly the face of the U.S. in conflict zones around the world. Robert Greenwald: Profit-Chasing Guns-for-Hire Are Killing Us in Iraq and Afghanistan
Meanwhile we do of course understand the custom of serving Pimms in and around tentage with our unreliable British summer and all. Total Politics Launch: Serving Pimms and Canopies?
Even a casual reading would suffice to demonstrate that Ross's account is wholly unreliable.
They are transformed into a conviction of being quite generally unreliable, untrustworthy, and insatiable. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
In the experiments described in the last two sections, we purposely made achromatic intensity unreliable, to prove that moths used the chromatic aspect of colour.
It identified the length of the reporting chains as a factor in why so much intelligence was unreliable.
See United States v. McNulty, 47 F. 3d 100, 104 – 106 (4th Cir. 1995) (arguing that a person who uses an easily monitored technology like a cordless phone is an unreliable communicant like a government informant, so communicating with a cordless phone user whose communications are being monitored is like communicating with an informant who has agreed to have his communication monitored). The Volokh Conspiracy » 2010 » March
Everyone I should have been able to count on, suddenly unreliable and inconstant, gone forever or drifting away.
I'm curious how that notoriously unreliable piece of engineering, the human body, will cause glitches in this system.
I found his account of events, where uncorroborated, to be unreliable to a quite significant degree.
According to highly unreliable sources, Mr Clinton had been sounded out earlier on this proposal but had demurred due to his busy schedule of engagements.
Like all miscellanies it is uneven, and at times factually unreliable. The Times Literary Supplement
They are powerful if unreliable weapons, and each one is a valuable artifact, encrusted with baroque decoration and intricate designs.
It shows what an unreliable person he is. The Sun
We haven't been able to listen to it properly on our unreliable dial-up lines - very frustrating!
It had come from her and was completely unreliable! Times, Sunday Times
All of which was a tad harsh on his players after a sodden day's play, so soft and slippy as to be an unreliable indicator of the teams' prospects in the months ahead.
I was forced to develop this recipe when my source for bialy became unreliable. I had become addicted to these as breakfast food.
Uncertainty will always remain, however, particularly when the evidence is unreliable.
His sudden departure demonstrates that he's unreliable/how unreliable he is.
What makes Wikipedia unreliable is that there are too many points at which sorrect material can be adjusted, edited, purged, spun, etc. UberWikipedia « BuzzMachine
Why get riled if this week's citizens are aggravatingly unreliable or irritatingly unpunctual?
Even as we talked, the unreliable power supply was affecting the lighting.
On top of this, a quarter of employers admit that their assessment methods are unreliable. Times, Sunday Times
She decided to divorce her increasingly faithless and unreliable husband.
I miss her because she was capricious and unreliable, and because minis are the kind of car that make people smile.
I've had it with all you unreliable, inconsistent, and detestable blockheads.
The fact that the medical evidence has proved so unreliable adds to the scandal. Times, Sunday Times
Yet he was unreliable, twice failing to act on the king's commission, and twice charged with embezzling customs money.
THE most unreliable appliance in British homes is the standalone cooker, a poll has found. The Sun
The groups modern research techniques, which aren't based on unreliable computer models used by non-global warming denying scientists, came up with this conclusion: After the end of the last Glacial both Hemispheres became warmer as a result of melting ice sheets, but during the last 9000 years we can identify a persistent "seesaw" pattern. Archive 2007-05-01
Firstly, Carroll is an unreliable waste-of-space who never turns up for things, is always surrounded by mates, and only engages in banter or is monosyllabic and unforthcoming in his one-to-ones with Allen.
She became unreliable and missed shows, and when she did appear her performances were often erratic. Times, Sunday Times
It's a phantom study that is completely unreliable. Times, Sunday Times
Time of arrest is unreliable for arrest witnessed by bystanders and unavailable for unwitnessed arrests, and time of first shock is irrelevant to patients who do not receive shocks.
An unreliable boyfriend at the best of times, Shaun persistently exasperates Liz by insisting they spend all their waking hours in the Winchester Arms, their local boozer.
The aged and dying marshal de Biron showed himself an unreliable instrument of force in Paris, while at Grenoble the 86-year-old marshal de Vaux was immobilized by retention of urine.
Leaving aside the practical problem of how on earth he could force them to stay, let alone be productive labour, the source for this claim is entirely unreliable.
Humble yet sly, he is quick to identify himself as an unreliable narrator. Times, Sunday Times
Slowly, we find that we are dealing with not one but three unreliable narrators. Times, Sunday Times
We may have a dilapidated library and an unreliable student computing service, but our staff are the best in New Zealand.
If incorrectly configured, extremely complex technologies like operating systems, switches or databases are unreliable.
So, if you've got an old or unreliable boiler, it might be worth getting it checked right now.
This would mean that the morphological criteria on which extant supposed D. arnoldi and D. hololissa have been identified are utterly unreliable: an idea which matches suggestions that 'carapace morphology is sensitive to environmental conditions and that captivity can result in aberrant morphologies' (Palkovacs et al. 2003, p. 1409; see also Gerlach 2004b). Archive 2006-02-01
Clinical history can be unreliable as a diagnostic indicator of latex allergy because of confounding variables.
The Marines sneered at the idea of a self-loading rifle, saying it would be too unreliable for combat.
What I remember is that the film starred Will Fyffe, whose big black dog was rather an unreliable brute that was suspected of sheep worrying.
The last 24 hours was redolent of the wider campaign, uncertain, fraught, divisive, full of brinkmanship with deeply unreliable signals emerging from both sides.
Chris Gayle and Wavell Hinds are both unreliable dashers, and West Indies can afford only one such player at the top.
At the moment islanders have to rely on a mixture of oil, solid fuel and small hydro schemes which are unreliable and expensive.
Then she undermined him, destroyed his confidence in his own talent, put it about that he was unreliable, a troublemaker. THE SOUND OF MURDER
an unreliable trestle
Musically, the ensembles are tight, but the intonation and tone production of the three principals is unreliable. Times, Sunday Times
Japan has tried to wean itself away from expensive and sometimes unreliable imported oil by going nuclear. Times, Sunday Times
His theories are plainly laughable and cribbed from unreliable internet sources. The Sun
She took to the London stage again but this time her lateness and unreliable vocals elicited cat-calls, jeers and even projectiles from angry audiences.
And then - shocker - it turned out that the roboprojectors were finicky and unreliable and required careful, skilled supervision.
Karl Johnson as an unreliable toper drifts through the action in a befuddled haze. Noises Off - review
He was always great fun but completely unreliable. The Sun
They also contend, somewhat contradictorily, that figures showing ever higher awards are based on sketchy and unreliable information.
This method isn't cheap, though: A government-certified degausser costs thousands of dollars, and bargain-basement versions are unreliable. Slate Magazine
The careful historian soon learns that juicy stories often have to be jettisoned when sources prove unreliable. Times, Sunday Times
Though some defectors were known as unreliable, there were too few independent sources to contradict them.
This makes it easier to recognise genuine people and not be fooled by charming but unreliable ones. The Sun
Unfortunately, with time travel being so unreliable for humans, he can only create a cyborg duplicate of himself and trust that it gets the job done.
Such a database would be a kludge of existing databases; databases that are incompatible, full of erroneous data, and unreliable.
But a touch of tennis elbow does not explain why his putting has suddenly become so unreliable. The Sun
Therefore Meyer, Van Horn, and Co. had the satisfaction of reading that William S. Gowdy was altogether too impulsive, erratic and unreliable -- happily Hill did not employ the word "untrustworthy" -- for holding a quasi-public position of some importance. Under the Skylights
The continuing reception of unreliable expert evidence simply defeats that purpose. Times, Sunday Times
The more I delved into sifting the reliable from the unreliable, the deeper I dropped into the well of discovery.
The sad truth is that “non-fiction” has been unreliable from the beginning, no matter how finely grained a section of human knowledge we wish to consider. Cooked Books « Isegoria
It also is based not so much on Hamlet as the original written source for the play, a Danish history written in 1204 by an unreliable historian named Saxo Grammaticus. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
In the early 1980's, riders were plagued by derailments, track fires, crime, breakdowns, slow and unreliable service, boarding vehicles with non-working doors, inadequate lighting and graffiti. Gene Russianoff: 25th Anniversary of Westway
Diplomats can be a notoriously unreliable and misleading source of information.
It is clear that taxes have unintended effects and that they are unreliable. Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa
We are dealing with Internet chat rooms: sleazy and unreliable, with no accountability.
Her outfits and blokish humour are viewed with muted approval, although even she is eventually portrayed as self-serving and unreliable.
Contrary to what Bridget Jones's Diary suggests, e-mail has proved an equally unreliable medium for billets-doux.
At the very best, he is unreliable; at worst, he is flaky and irrational.
While I may be friends with someone similar to me, I've never been attracted to someone who was noticeably unreliable; prone to depression or unco.
He's always told Sadie her staff are scatty and unreliable - and now he feels he's been left looking stupid.
Unfortunately, just as Stone is fun but unreliable, Hulsker is authoritative but almost punitively boring. A Stranger to Himself
Because biological yeast was unreliable, most bakers supplemented their sourdough starter with saleratus, an alkali bicarbonate of soda that replaced the colonial-era pearl ash or potash potassium carbonate derived from leaching wood or plant ashes. One Big Table
Research has shown, however, that recall is unreliable and rife with inaccuracies and biases.
You didn't mention, Beta, that the roads are unmetalled; the electricity is unreliable and intermittent; the water still comes from a well; there are no street-lamps and the only transport we've got is oxen, goat or mule-driven.
She was totally unreliable, so she got / was given her marching orders.
If the evidence is unreliable then legal aid should be refused. The Sun
Because existing spectrometers and polarimeters make use of mechanical scanning methods, they are unreliable and require a long time to acquire complete data sets.
Giving excuses too often undermines a person's reputation by making him seem self-absorbed, unreliable or unknowledgeable.
At the moment islanders have to rely on a mixture of oil, solid fuel and small hydro schemes which are unreliable and expensive.
What inadequate lighting exists is unreliable, flickering off at the most inopportune moments.
The court placed great evidence on the fact that the California official charged with regulating voting systems, the secretary of state, had decertified punch-card machines as unacceptable and thus inherently unreliable.
The coherer was very finicky and unreliable in operation, so there was a vigorous search for an alternative.
Too often, authorities say, the science is unproven, the analyses unsound, and the experts unreliable.
It is difficult to blame people for spending holidays abroad, when the weather here is so unreliable.
If, in this process, the women provides uncorroborated evidence or any conflicting information, regardless of how minor, this may then be used in Court to ‘prove’ the complainant is lying or at least unreliable.
She decided to divorce her increasingly faithless and unreliable husband.
A lot of users these days are sick of dodgy mice with trackballs, they get dirty and become unreliable, not to mention it's a pain to have to pull them apart to clean the ball.
He became a road sweeper when he left school but proved lazy and unreliable. The Sun
The careful historian soon learns that juicy stories often have to be jettisoned when sources prove unreliable. Times, Sunday Times
Linda told him with amazing inanity that his opinion of her was unreliable; and, contented, he lightly pursued his admiration of what he called her boreal charm. Linda Condon
Then, it was accepted that a new car would be unreliable and poorly made.
Opinion polls are an unreliable predictor of election outcomes.
The traders had complained the system was unreliable and said they had no proof that it had discouraged crime.
The defense argued that police mishandled blood drops from the crime scene, making the results of DNA testing unreliable.
And yet acquiring evidence and testing the veracity of claims in past cases is hugely time-consuming and the results are unreliable. Times, Sunday Times
The July meeting which should have been held in a garden was again inside due to the unreliable summer weather.
These unreliable claims are based on incomplete, shaky evidence.
Although the Newtonian equations governing the elements are well known, long-term weather prediction is notoriously unreliable!
Reliable methods to predict ovulation are lacking, therefore predicting the fertile window is also unreliable.
Mr. Tsvangirai said he had taken considerable political risk by signing the political agreement and entering into a government of national unity with unreliable partners, Mr. Mugabe and ZANU-PF. Political analyst Brian Raftopoulos says that progress in fulfilment of the global political agreement, which is the foundation for the inclusive government, was controlled by the Zimbabwe military. Zimbabwe's Unity Government in Trouble
Relying exclusively then on that particular line of form could be an unreliable yardstick.
A rapid building programme amid rampant corruption is producing economic waste and unreliable manufacturing. Times, Sunday Times
What is it that I, wholly unreliable narrator, belittler of common customs, frenetic workhorse, a mixture of dash-punk here and there, an ideological specimen or perhaps a political curiousity to be left as a scabrous object in the cabinet, must promise? Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier)
The careful historian soon learns that juicy stories often have to be jettisoned when sources prove unreliable. Times, Sunday Times
West was born in 1893, the daughter of a beautiful and indulgent mother and an unreliable macho father, and from her earliest days she evinced utter self-assurance.
She has a high-pitched reedy voice that doesn't stretch into the corners of these dark hued songs as much as shimmer above them like an unreliable narrator.
The onus of humiliating reverses was also cast on a supposedly finicking, too easily exhausted, and sometimes unreliable ‘native force’.
Surely it is widely known that lie detectors are completely unreliable quack science, and simply don't work. Times, Sunday Times
The evidence for them was far too unreliable to have any credibility.
Richard writes unpublishable modernist monsters that induce migraines: "'Untitled,' with its octuple time scheme and its rotating crew of sixteen unreliable narrators, sounded like a departure, but it wasn't. The Infamous Martin Amis
By contrast the state markets were unreliable with regard to delivery times, quality, and choice.
Please avoid general conjectures about when such unreliable assurances must doubtless have been made.
But even less unlikely … A hollywood gossip site (read: likely unreliable) called Hollywire is reporting that two of the Jonas Brothers (recent “winners” of the Razzie Award for Worst Actors of 2009), Joe Jonas and Kevin Jonas, “have already read lines for the upcoming film and are in contention for both Captain America and other characters in the film.” Dane Cook and the Jonas Brothers Auditioned for Captain America Roles? | /Film
He became a road sweeper when he left school but proved lazy and unreliable. The Sun
This man is incongruous, inconsistent and unreliable and is the latest saviour for the opposition.

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