Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be āsatanic.ā However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
UNRELIABLE
unreliable, undependable
(adjective) not worthy of reliance or trust; āin the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliableā; āan undependable assistantā
undependable, unreliable
(adjective) liable to be erroneous or misleading; āan undependable generalizationā
unreliable
(adjective) lacking a sense of responsibility
treacherous, unreliable
(adjective) dangerously unstable and unpredictable; ātreacherous winding roadsā; āan unreliable trestleā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
unreliable (comparative more unreliable, superlative most unreliable)
Not reliable.
Synonyms
• flakey
• sporadic
Antonyms
• reliable
Anagrams
• Bleulerian
Source: Wiktionary
Un`re*li"a*ble, a.
Definition: Not reliable; untrustworthy. See Reliable.
– Un`re*li"a*ble*ness, n. Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to Mr. Coleridge's coinage) "unreliable;" or perhaps, in more correct English, too "unrelyuponable." De Quincey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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