not dependable

Example Sentences

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These early bikes were not dependable, says Tom Samuelsen, historian of the Pacific Northwest Museum of Motorcycling.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2022

The guy is simply not dependable, and also presents a defensive liability.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2021

Nor was she especially good, in the sense of having a dependable inclination to virtue; she was quixotically loving, not steadily charitable: mutable, not dependable: given to infatuation, prey to impulse.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2017

The maternal protective behavior is not dependable; if she’s disturbed or the sac is not viable the mother spider may extract the young and eat them.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2012

Yet here, in the back room of this laundry, was one who was apparently not dependable.

From Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)