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Several unreliable dealers have been struck off our list of authorized suppliers.几个不可靠的供应商已从我们的许可供应商名单中去除掉了。
"He's so unreliable!" she said crossly.‘他太不靠谱了！’她忿忿地说。
Managers had complained that the workers were lazy and unreliable.经理们抱怨工人们懒惰而且不可靠。
I wouldn't ask Angie to do it, she's completely unreliable.
Don't be influenced by the figures, they're a bit unreliable.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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unreliable | American Dictionary

unreliable
adjective
us/ˌʌn·rɪˈlɑɪ·ə·bəl/
not to be trusted or depended on:
Their carpenter was totally unreliable – he never finished the job.

Examples of unreliable

unreliable
Unfortunately, the measurement of cell proliferation has tended to be unreliable.
As a result, counting every language as a variable would have produced statistically unreliable results.
Paradoxically, this might be taken to prove the point which she is attacking : that the early modern translations are unreliable.
Intuitively, the rule r6 states that an unreliable source is not queried by default.
Hence, it is an unreliable, inherently error prone process, which reduces the overall confidence in the resulting profiles.
Due to the changeable outdoor lighting conditions and due to the different view angles the fence size estimation is unreliable.
Though the machines were often unreliable, their low price was very appealing.
Such evidence is likely to be unreliable and give falsely significant associations between water consumption and disease.
Seeding blood with extremely low parasite concentrations would be an unreliable procedure.
In many countries the existing infrastructure is overloaded and in bad repair, and services are unreliable and often expensive and infiltrated with corruption.
Consequently, we performed two sets of numerical experiments aimed at determining the structure of the optimal policy for systems with three unreliable servers.
Hence, if the high-order products are neglected, then the resulting statistics become unreliable very close to the boundary.
This study revealed that physicians' survival estimates were unreliable, especially in the case of patients near death.
We have no statistics for rural-rural migration before 1953, while the figures for the townships suffer from unreliable ethnic categorization.
However, of course gossip or other indirect informational exchange is cheap and may be unreliable.
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