Unreliable

  • 11unreliable — adjective unable to be trusted or depended on: The car s becoming very unreliable. | unreliable witness (=someone who may not tell the truth in a court) opposite reliable …

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  • 12unreliable — adjective 1) unreliable volunteers Syn: undependable, untrustworthy, irresponsible, fickle, fair weather, capricious, erratic, unpredictable, inconstant, faithless, temperamental; informal hinky See note at trustworthy 2) …

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  • 13unreliable — adj. Unreliable is used with these nouns: ↑indicator, ↑source, ↑witness …

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  • 14unreliable — [ˌʌnrɪˈlaɪəb(ə)l] adj someone or something that is unreliable cannot be depended on …

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  • 15Unreliable narrator — In literature, film, theatre, and music, an unreliable narrator (a term coined by Wayne C. Booth in his 1961 book The Rhetoric of Fiction [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60 1824513,00.html Professor Wayne Booth Comment Times Online ] ] …

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  • 16unreliable narrator — noun A narrating character or storyteller in a literary or other artistic work such as a novel, play, song, or film who provides inaccurate, misleading, conflictin …

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  • 17unreliable narrator —   A literary term meaning a protagonist or narrator whose perspective is skewed to their own perspective, producing a portrayal of events that may or may not be accurate or truthful; the lack of credibility may be deliberate or due to a lack of… …

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  • 18unreliable — unreliability, unreliableness, n. unreliably, adv. /un ri luy euh beuhl/, adj. not reliable; not to be relied or depended on. [1830 40; UN 1 + RELIABLE] Syn. undependable, irresponsible, untrustworthy. * * * …

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  • 19unreliable — adjective Not reliable …

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  • 20unreliable — Synonyms and related words: adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, capricious, changeable, changeful, coquettish, dangerous, desultory, deviable, disreputable, dizzy, doubtful, dubious, eccentric, erratic, faddish, faithless, FALSE, falsehearted …

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