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UK
/ˌʌndɪpˈɛndəbəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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liable to be erroneous or misleading
an undependable generalization -
not worthy of reliance or trust
in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable
an undependable assistant
How To Use undependable In A Sentence
- All too often the information they provide, and the supposed eyewitnesses they interview, are undependable.
- 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.
- Any member that is irresponsible dissolves the team trust because undependable people force others to interfere, complain and become uncooperative.
- 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.
- an undependable generalization
- The other is a chronic underachiever, undependable, disreputable, a thoroughly wild child.
- But they were undependable; they would say they would come and then wouldn't, and Mrs Macon gave up counting on them. DANSVILLE
- 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.
- Attendance is a direct reflection of dependability and employers do not promote or retain undependable employees.
- `Perhaps you'd enjoy going back to it instead of relying on such an undependable person. THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME