But when acts are unintelligible, we can only refer them to a general untrustworthiness, and guard against them by a general restraint.
"Eugenics and Other Evils"
G. K. Chesterton
There are passages of circumstantial invention in the Review, as ingenious as anything in Robinson Crusoe; and the mere fact that at the end of ten years of secret service under successive Governments, and in spite of a widespread opinion of his untrustworthiness, he was able to pass himself off for ten years more as a Tory with Tories and with the Whig Government as a loyal servant, is a proof of sustained ingenuity of invention greater than many volumes of fiction.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
Perhaps the next day was helped to be a flat day by the barometer, which had shown its usual untrustworthiness and gone down.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan