Illustration: At a fork on a well-maintained Japanese woodland trail, the group's self-appointed guide holds a pictorial route map upside down and weakly points toward one path while looking toward the other. Three companions stand behind him with doubtful expressions, still waiting for dependable direction.

JLPT N2i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

頼たよりない

tayorinai

unreliable, undependable

Example sentences

彼女かのじょはぼんやりして頼たよりない者ものだ。
She is an absent-minded and unreliable person.
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初はじめての仕事しごとで、私わたしはまだ頼たよりなかった。
It was my first job, and I wasn’t very dependable yet.
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彼かれの説明せつめいは少すこし頼たよりない。
His explanation is a little unreliable.
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Kanji in 頼

頼trust; requestOnライKunたのむ・たのもしい・たよる

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