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  • adverb In an unreliable manner.

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  • adverb in an unfaithful undependable unreliable manner

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Examples

  • If you don't have that option, or you unreliably have that option, you have to do a whole range of things differently as you look to contain Iran, sustain a war in Afghanistan and wind down a battle in Iraq, Alterman said.

    U.S. and Egyptian militaries have much at stake in crisis 2011

  • "If we do nothing in the face of the looming spectrum crunch," he said, "many consumers will face higher prices -- as the market is forced to respond to supply and demand -- and frustrating service - connections that drop, apps that run unreliably or too slowly."

    Navarrow Wright: AT&T, T-Mobile Deal Brings Us Closer To A Connected Future Navarrow Wright 2011

  • If we do nothing in the face of the looming spectrum crunch, many consumers will face higher prices -- as the market is forced to respond to supply and demand -- and frustrating service -- connections that drop, apps that run unreliably or too slowly.

    Jonathan Spalter: Wireless Wonderland Jonathan Spalter 2011

  • (Or Liverpool prison as I am unreliably informed, it is now known).

    All That Trouble Over A Footballer « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Giamatti was made to play this comically disgraceful antihero – a boozy, philandering New York Jewish sleazeball/charmer – whose belief in romance shapes his unreliably narrated life, even as it ruins those of others.

    This week's new films 2011

  • Mr. Dotolo refuses to appear on television and admits to unreliably answering voicemails or texts.

    L.A.'s Masterminds of 'Dude Food' Katy McLaughlin 2011

  • Weather forecasts are notoriously and unreliably ominous five days removed from the annual Winter Classic, but this year there's a four-letter word that no one wants to hear: rain.

    Winter Classic threatened by rainy forecast for Saturday Cindy Boren 2010

  • Moreover, while Fiorina has a small lead among white voters (47-45%), Boxer has a huge 48-29% lead among Latinos (although the Field Poll sample of Latinos was unreliably small in this survey).

    Poll: Ma’am Babs Widens Lead Over Hurricane Carly 2010

  • The serum was transported by train from Anchorage to Nenana, after which the dogsled mushers drove it through whiteout blizzard conditions across a landscape “about as alien and forbidding as the moon: total isolation, endless night, bizarre acoustics, unreliably frozen rivers, and 60-below temperatures eventually causing both body and mind to shut down altogether.”

    Wolverine Director Gavin Hood Books Alaskan Adventure Movie with Walden Media | /Film 2010

  • Only four routes in the first half of 2009 had greater than 20% of its buses arriving unreliably.

    Gene Russianoff: Pokey Buses 2009

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