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Reliable   /rɪlˈaɪəbəl/  /rilˈaɪəbəl/   Listen
Reliable

adjective
1.
Worthy of reliance or trust.  Synonym: dependable.  "A dependable worker"
2.
Worthy of being depended on.  Synonyms: dependable, honest, true.  "An honest working stiff" , "A reliable sourcSFLe of information" , "He was true to his word" , "I would be true for there are those who trust me"
3.
Conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief.  Synonym: authentic.  "Reliable information"



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"Reliable" Quotes from Famous Books



... the world. Let the circle include a few university professors, some successful men of business, a couple of judges, a sprinkling of journalists, an archdeacon or two, and some authors of repute. Let them all be actuated by a strong desire to obtain reliable information and to give a fair and unprejudiced hearing ...
— Mountain Meditations - and some subjects of the day and the war • L. Lind-af-Hageby

... tablespoonful of fine salt to each pound of butter and work it in. A small teaspoonful of fine white sugar, worked in with the salt, will be found an improvement—sugar is a great preservative. Make the butter in a roll; cover it with a bit of muslin and keep it in a cool place. A reliable recipe. ...
— The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) - The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Cyclopedia Of Information For - The Home • Mrs. F.L. Gillette

... the most reliable test of health rights not enforced was the number of cases of preventable, communicable, contagious, infectious, transmissible diseases, such as smallpox, typhoid fever, yellow fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough. ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen

... far as my poor memory goes, my mother's lady's-maid informed me of the fact; then I think my sister's governess," he replied, ticking off his informants on his fingers with a half-abstracted air. "After that came a number of more or less reliable individuals, and lastly the Lady Alicia ...
— The Lunatic at Large • J. Storer Clouston

... Chrysostom can be positively established by a twofold argument. (1) Pope Celestine the First recommended him as a reliable defender of the Catholic faith against Nestorianism and Pelagianism.(324) (2) Chrysostom rejected Semipelagianism as it were in advance when he taught: "Not even faith is of ourselves; for if He [God] had not come, if He had not called, how should we have been able ...
— Grace, Actual and Habitual • Joseph Pohle


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