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Distrust   /dɪstrˈəst/   Listen
Distrust

noun
1.
Doubt about someone's honesty.  Synonyms: misgiving, mistrust, suspicion.
2.
The trait of not trusting others.  Synonyms: distrustfulness, mistrust.  Antonym: trust.
verb
(past & past part. distrusted; pres. part. distrusting)
1.
Regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in.  Synonyms: mistrust, suspect.  Antonym: trust.



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"Distrust" Quotes from Famous Books



... teachers and tours, and sighed over the cost of Ronald's different hobbies. And now he was not only to have a grievous disappointment, but also a great offence, for Peter Sinclair shared fully in the Arcadean dislike and distrust of lawyers, and would have been deeply offended at any one requiring their aid in any business ...
— Winter Evening Tales • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... intention of being merciful. I had no chance of being merciful. It was like an operation without ether, but it had to be gone through with. It had to be cut out, in some way, that whole cancerous growth of hate and distrust. ...
— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer

... verb, a corruption of the French verb se gener, and what they meant was that you really wanted a third potato dumpling but did not like to say so. Whether your reluctance was supposed to proceed from your distrust of your host's hospitality or shame at your own appetite, is not clear; in either case it was taken, is even to-day still often taken, for artificial. To accept a portion of an untouched dish was considered a sign that you came from "a ...
— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

... he did from time to time, on business connected with the materials he used, and he was beguiled into telling them of his views of Mark, whom he had put in the way of learning the preliminaries needful to an accountant. He had a deep distrust of the business capacities and perseverance of young gentlemen of family, especially with a countess-aunt in the neighbourhood, and quoted Lord Eldon's saying that to make a good lawyer of one, it was needful for him to have spent both his own and ...
— Nuttie's Father • Charlotte M. Yonge

... line of the Reserve you step into a foreign country, and among a foreign people, who speak a foreign language, and who know one of us as quick as they see us; and they seem to have a very prudent distrust of us. After passing this black, Dutch region, you enter a population of emigrants from Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, and some from North Carolina, and all unite in detesting and distrusting the ...
— Bart Ridgeley - A Story of Northern Ohio • A. G. Riddle


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