as in fraudulent
not able to be trusted; not trustworthy
an untrustworthy person He has proven himself untrustworthy.
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Recent Examples of untrustworthy
There are security implications to AI running on untrustworthy data as well.
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Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Predictive lending requires access to data, and an untrustworthy provider might willingly or unwillingly share that data with the wrong people.
—Arleo Dordar, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Russia and China each possess hundreds of long-range ballistic missile launchers, while the North Korean ICBM force's operational status remains uncertain due to untrustworthy or limited public sources, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
The suit also paints a clownish portrait of the entrepreneur, portraying him as pompous, shameless, and untrustworthy.
—Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
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On May 30, 2025, a Pennsylvania federal court refused NFL player agent Todd France’s request to vacate a December 2023 arbitration decision which ordered France to pay over $800,000 in damages to rival agent Jason Bernstein and which excoriated France for fraudulent conduct.—
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The couple were convicted of conspiring to defraud community banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans as well as tax evasion and sentenced to 12 and seven years, respectively.—
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Harvard’s dishonest expert on honesty is a poignant symbol of a far larger problem in academia: ideological allegiance replacing the quest for truth.—
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On one hand, the inquiry appeared to play into his rivals’ criticisms of Mr. Cuomo as a dishonest broker, who has been accused of putting nursing home residents at risk during the coronavirus pandemic and seeking to cover it up.—
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Last year, the Biden administration's Transportation Department opened an inquiry ordering American, Delta Air Lines, Southwest and United to provide records and submit reports to ensure consumers do not face unfair, deceptive, or anticompetitive practices.—
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The quest to build human-level AI agents using techniques known to produce deceptive tendencies, Bengio says, is comparable to a car speeding down a narrow mountain road, with steep cliffs on either side, and thick fog obscuring the path ahead.—
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The senators are incorrect three times, and surely more.—
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But here’s the twist: both might technically be incorrect.—
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The decision to deploy Dembele as a false nine for a 3-1 home win over Lyon in mid-December proved the spark for a stupendous run of goal-scoring form in which the France international racked up 27 goals in only 22 appearances.—
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The couple was convicted in 2022 of conspiring to defraud banks out of more than $30 million in loans by submitting false documents.—
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Don’t hire a sales person the conventional way Traditional sales hiring focuses on the wrong signals.—
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But even putting O’Brien on notice would be an attempt to intimidate and silence a critic, which is plainly wrong.—
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“Untrustworthy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untrustworthy. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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