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Definition of undependable in English: undependableadjectiveʌndɪˈpɛndəb(ə)lˌəndəˈpɛndəb(ə)l Not trustworthy and reliable. 不可信的,靠不住的 evidence is scarce and often undependable 证据不足而且常常靠不住。 Example sentencesExamples - It is just that such lore is so undependable that it is not in the forefront of their minds.
- I would not appreciate having to depend on what are often undependable bus services.
- Sympathetic but far from uncritical, Simon described Douglas as a ‘shy’ and ‘intensely private man’ whose accounts of his own life were thoroughly undependable.
- According to Erikson, children who fail to develop a basic sense of trust will view the world as hostile and people as undependable in later life.
- Journalists tend to stockpile information, and it leaks out through our attempts at communication like air around an undependable vacuum seal.
- Put more baldly, he was recognisably mixed-up; and although that made him maddeningly undependable as a politician, it humanised him as a man.
- Though this would seem to be an all-purpose, comprehensive technical solution, it was expensive and frequently undependable, and never made it into the mainstream.
- Attendance is a direct reflection of dependability and employers do not promote or retain undependable employees.
- 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.
- Somehow she'd heard through the undependable (as always!) grapevine that he wanted to date her, which was a crazy idea, considering how he'd never felt like dating her in all the many years in high school he'd known her.
- She asked, quickly averting the subject from James' opinion of his undependable mother and late father.
- She married a man who was erratic, undependable and bad at paying bills.
- The other is a chronic underachiever, undependable, disreputable, a thoroughly wild child.
- Language is a means of distilling and ‘reflecting’ reality - yet language is slippery, undependable.
- All too often the information they provide, and the supposed eyewitnesses they interview, are undependable.
- In the past the productions of necessities were very low, inefficient and undependable.
- Any member that is irresponsible dissolves the team trust because undependable people force others to interfere, complain and become uncooperative.
- ‘It's these undependable computers again,’ said another student.
- The biggest is simply whether Pru can deliver profits that don't depend, as they have so heavily in recent years, on such undependable sources as growth in its own pension-fund assets.
- All this made the business sector an undependable contributor to economic growth.
Synonyms unpredictable, changeable, variable, inconstant, inconsistent, uncertain, erratic, irregular, unstable, turbulent, unsteady, unsettled, unreliable, changing, ever-changing, varying, shifting, fluctuating, fluid, mutable, protean, fitful, wavering, full of ups and downs Definition of undependable in US English: undependableadjectiveˌəndəˈpendəb(ə)lˌəndəˈpɛndəb(ə)l Not trustworthy and reliable. 不可信的,靠不住的 evidence is scarce and often undependable 证据不足而且常常靠不住。 Example sentencesExamples - Journalists tend to stockpile information, and it leaks out through our attempts at communication like air around an undependable vacuum seal.
- The biggest is simply whether Pru can deliver profits that don't depend, as they have so heavily in recent years, on such undependable sources as growth in its own pension-fund assets.
- Somehow she'd heard through the undependable (as always!) grapevine that he wanted to date her, which was a crazy idea, considering how he'd never felt like dating her in all the many years in high school he'd known her.
- Put more baldly, he was recognisably mixed-up; and although that made him maddeningly undependable as a politician, it humanised him as a man.
- Any member that is irresponsible dissolves the team trust because undependable people force others to interfere, complain and become uncooperative.
- She married a man who was erratic, undependable and bad at paying bills.
- Attendance is a direct reflection of dependability and employers do not promote or retain undependable employees.
- Language is a means of distilling and ‘reflecting’ reality - yet language is slippery, undependable.
- I would not appreciate having to depend on what are often undependable bus services.
- Though this would seem to be an all-purpose, comprehensive technical solution, it was expensive and frequently undependable, and never made it into the mainstream.
- The other is a chronic underachiever, undependable, disreputable, a thoroughly wild child.
- In the past the productions of necessities were very low, inefficient and undependable.
- Sympathetic but far from uncritical, Simon described Douglas as a ‘shy’ and ‘intensely private man’ whose accounts of his own life were thoroughly undependable.
- ‘It's these undependable computers again,’ said another student.
- All too often the information they provide, and the supposed eyewitnesses they interview, are undependable.
- According to Erikson, children who fail to develop a basic sense of trust will view the world as hostile and people as undependable in later life.
- All this made the business sector an undependable contributor to economic growth.
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms unpredictable, changeable, variable, inconstant, inconsistent, uncertain, erratic, irregular, unstable, turbulent, unsteady, unsettled, unreliable, changing, ever-changing, varying, shifting, fluctuating, fluid, mutable, protean, fitful, wavering, full of ups and downs |