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n. - The trait of not being dependable or reliable.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Sometimes it is presented as an anodyne to souls disturbed by experience of men's unreliableness, as when the apostle heartens the
  • Peter's vanity was sifted out of him, his self-confidence was sifted out of him, his rash presumption was sifted out of him, his impulsive readiness to blurt out the first...
  • Many of them are base enough to allow themselves to be penned over night, around a barrel of whisky, by a file of men who prevent their escape and march them up to the polls in...
  • The mere cost of living is such, that I avoid the slightest unnecessary expense in my housekeeping, and the incompetency and unreliableness of every member of my...
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