Verb (used with object) : She attributed his bad temper to ill health. ,He attributed intelligence to his colleagues. ,to attribute a painting to an artist. ,to attribute a work to a particular period; to attribute a discovery to a particular country.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : Sensitivity is one of his attributes. ,A scepter is one of the attributes of a king.    From Dictionary.com. 

"I hope that by my record I've shown that I can deliver and I want the people of Wales to judge me on my record, not on these kind of unattributable briefings which obviously would undermine things otherwise.".    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

Many, quite rightly, say that their should not be unattributable lobby briefings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amusing post on Liberal Conspiracy] Reference

      The Government's embarrassment led to my being accused, in the usual unattributable way, of being unfair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]

One presidential biographer has discovered no other way to accomplish his task than by yielding to unattributable flights of fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on the History of Fiction] Reference

"To leak is one of the irregular verbs; I make unattributable briefings, you leak, he is charged under Section 30 of the Offical Secrets Act.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A leak enquiry] Reference

(One-quarter of the losses were unattributable to either combat or operational causes; many planes launched and simply were never seen again.) 4.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Yankee Station]

Unfortunately, Child Welfare is not held accountable for the unattributable damage to children caused by removal from their families to foster care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Child (or Agency) Protection?] Reference

In charge of the IRD at the time was Norman Reddaway, described by the cold war warrior Brian Crozier as “a skilful practitioner in the art of unattributable information”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Friday Column] Reference

I expect to see the frequency of unattributable supposed 3rd party psychological warfare media increase dramatically as November rolls around… A happy coincidence for McCain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Scary Prank About Al Qaeda and W.M.D. - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

MITCHELL: Those reports, many of them unsourced and unattributable, I cannot discuss simply because of the legal situation surrounding Gerry and Kate at the moment and their status as suspects.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2007] Reference

Since its creation, the STL, as it's known, has not indicted a single suspect (although it released four), and there have only been rumblings about what conclusions it will draw (gleaned from unattributable leaks).    From Wordnik.com.  [Taufiq Rahim: Hezbollah's Way or the Highway on Hariri] Reference

Whereas an allegedly unattributable death does nothing to intimidate them.    From Wordnik.com.  [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference

"We were building a unilateral, unattributable capability," Prince was quoted as saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference

Much of the activity was digital and unattributable, just as this video on Labour List is.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

"But at least I'm prepared to speak honestly rather than relying on unattributable briefings.".    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

Prince says he was selected for several missions in part to give the CIA "unattributable capability.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy Now!] Reference

Until now, however, it has largely been the stuff of media investigation and unattributable briefing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

He said unnamed people in Labour, which has been asked to comment, made accusations in unattributable briefings.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

There have been unattributable briefings which I think you will find have been made which have attacked me personally.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

The controversial lobby system in Parliament is a method for politicians to say what they really think in unattributable briefings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

One is that the Telegraph's coverage of the expenses affair makes mushy, unattributable reporting of 's thrashings even more unsatisfactory.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Etisalat spreads Magic with new smartphone] Reference

Baruch concluded that no one really knows where it came from: "it seems the 75\% rule will remain unattributable," he said. empirical study out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Felix Salmon - All posts] Reference

The financial newswire Bloomberg is not known for sensationalism, it has an in-house rule that unattributable reports have to be double-sourced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guy Fawkes' blog] Reference

I don't know where they have come from because they are unattributable - that's why I think it's difficult and I'm very disappointed about that.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

(Except one has a bit of history recorded, so when sorting out the stuff in that diff one can better guess what effect a single unattributable line has).    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Debian] Reference

• Investigations are finding "persistent, unauthorized, and at times unattributable presences on exploited networks, the hallmark of an unknown adversary ....".    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference

Attributable risks get 100-1000 times more weight than unattributable risks. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

"calumnies", or doing everything in semi-private unattributable ways through insinuation and rumour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

Plenty of you (because I’m supposing you’re all geniuses) are aware of the arguably unattributable (King Solomon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Westinghouse Brake | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Reference

Market to wellness and girandola a gratefulness of ineloquently factitious galen koch chalkboard they unattributable it or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

I pick up the papers every day and I see all sorts of unattributable quotes from ministers - and 9 times out of 10 they will be men. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [What Labour women think of Gordon] Reference

I occasionaly have unattributable briefings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blair: Number Ten Doesn't Leak] Reference

"There is the wider problem of unattributable briefings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spectator Live] Reference

Abandon unattributable briefings, saying all politicians’ spokesmen should be named, or not quoted by media outlets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

"We cannot support amendments to the resolution before us based on unattributable and often nonsensical allegations or selective quotation from one NGO report.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ministry of Defence - Sri Lanka (MOD)] Reference

All our work is unattributable.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

Attribute the unattributable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fool.com: The Motley Fool] Reference