unreliable synonyms

unreliable

modif.

  1. Not reliable; said of persons

    undependable, irresponsible, unstable, wavering, deceitful, tricky, shifty, furtive, underhanded, untrue, fickle, giddy, capricious, untrustworthy, vacillating, fallible, weak, unpredictable; see also dishonest 1, 2.

  2. Not reliable; said of facts and objects

    deceptive, delusive, hallucinatory, plausible, specious, tricky, unsound, untrue, inaccurate, erroneous, hollow, pretended, sham, pseudo, makeshift, meretricious, misleading.

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