Unreliableness

Unreliableness
Unreliable Un`re*li"a*ble, a. Not reliable; untrustworthy. See {Reliable}. -- {Un`re*li"a*ble*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]

Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to Mr. Coleridge's coinage) ``unreliable;'' or perhaps, in more correct English, too ``unrelyuponable.'' --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]


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