Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Unreliableness; untrustworthiness.
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- noun The quality of being
unreliable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of not being dependable or reliable
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Examples
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(Okay, Blood & Iron has an unreliable third-person narrator, but since part of the unreliability is the third-person (it's a lie!))
room by room, patiently pecunium 2007
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In analyzing these figures we find that two-thirds of that unreliability is due to bad weather, in other words bad visibility, because there is very little in the quality of any aircraft except in ability to see.
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I wonder if unreliability is attributable to Dell or if it’s just the nature of the beast … so to speak.
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The reviewer quoted a statement that the bristlecone record is not “reliable”, the lack of reliability being hypothesized to be due to CO2 fertilization, but the attribution of the unreliability is a different issue than the existence of the unreliability.
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There you have a thirteen per cent measure of unreliability, which is not good enough for carrying mails, and so on.
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Two natural methods I did not include in the above list because of their unreliability are the
foodconsumer.org 2010
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Once the unreliability is a fact of life and fuels are priced out of the grasp of the average man the masses will accept the green solution.
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I hadn't been told of Garland's problematic past: her having been dropped by MGM for "unreliability" after two decades of phenomenal success,
My Dance With Judy 2010
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Are we seeing that kind of unreliability we should expect from VoIP networks?
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Rodnick noted, however, the case shows the potential "unreliability" of eye-witness identifications.
unknown title 2009
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