(1) Language is a means of distilling and u2018reflectingu2019 reality - yet language is slippery, undependable .(2) A gymnast must be both skillful and careful and never gamble, never rely on providence or luck - in short on anything that is undependable or fortuitous.(3) She asked, quickly averting the subject from James' opinion of his undependable mother and late father.(4) Somehow she'd heard through the undependable (as always!) grapevine that he wanted to date her, which was a crazy idea, considering how he'd never felt like dating her in all the many years in high school he'd known her.(5) Any member that is irresponsible dissolves the team trust because undependable people force others to interfere, complain and become uncooperative.(6) u2018It's these undependable computers again,u2019 said another student.(7) The biggest is simply whether Pru can deliver profits that don't depend, as they have so heavily in recent years, on such undependable sources as growth in its own pension-fund assets.(8) Put more baldly, he was recognisably mixed-up; and although that made him maddeningly undependable as a politician, it humanised him as a man.(9) I would not appreciate having to depend on what are often undependable bus services.(10) She married a man who was erratic, undependable and bad at paying bills.(11) It is just that such lore is so undependable that it is not in the forefront of their minds.(12) Though this would seem to be an all-purpose, comprehensive technical solution, it was expensive and frequently undependable , and never made it into the mainstream.(13) The other is a chronic underachiever, undependable , disreputable, a thoroughly wild child.(14) All this made the business sector an undependable contributor to economic growth.(15) Journalists tend to stockpile information, and it leaks out through our attempts at communication like air around an undependable vacuum seal.(16) According to Erikson, children who fail to develop a basic sense of trust will view the world as hostile and people as undependable in later life.