unreliable guide
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunreliableandguide
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unreliable
adjective
uk/ˌʌn.rɪˈlaɪə.bəl/us/ˌʌn.rɪˈlaɪə.bəl/
not able to be trusted ...
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guide
noun[C]
uk/ɡaɪd/us/ɡaɪd/
a book that gives you the most important information about a ...
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(Definition ofunreliableandguidefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofunreliable guide
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But comparative steady state relations can be anunreliableguideto the relationships we should expect to find in time series.
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Punctuation marks offer only a rough and somewhatunreliableguideto prosody.
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This is to say that compassion without other moral signposts is anunreliableguidefor ethics.
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For any given individual, the post-deliberation mean opinion (or change from the pre-deliberation mean) may be anunreliableguideto his or her full-information position.
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Examining correlations between income and material hardship by family characteristics, the authors concluded that official poverty statistics are anunreliableguideto the distribution of hardship.
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Annualised figures can be anunreliableguideto the outturn for the year.
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Fluctuations in the price of sugar show what a totallyunreliableguidethis would be.
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The information is presented including and excluding the self-employed, whose reported income may be anunreliableguideto their actual standard of living.
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Experience was that difficulties of monitoring fog and knowing when to use the signs made them anunreliableguideto conditions on the motorway.
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Waiting lists are anunreliableguideto housing needs and information about them is not held centrally.
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Hansard archive
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First, shopping surveys are notoriously unreliable guides.
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