unreliable

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 4:09:44

Un`re*li"a*ble (?), a.

Not reliable; untrustworthy. See Reliable.

-- Un`re*li"a*ble*ness, n.

Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to Mr. Coleridge's coinage) "unreliable;" or perhaps, in more correct English, too "unrelyuponable." De Quincey.

 

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