unreliable

Definitions

un- (not) + reliable = the rope you can't lean on; it snaps under weight. Used of sources, witnesses, machines, and people who let you down.

Common Collocations

• 1.unreliable source不可靠的来源
• 2.unreliable witness不可信的证人
• 3.notoriously unreliable出了名地靠不住
• 4.unreliable narrator不可靠的叙述者

Example Sentences

• 1.

  His memory of that night proved completely unreliable.

• 2.

  Don't cite an unreliable source in your essay.