distrust

[Dis*trust·]

Distrust is a feeling of doubt about some person or thing. We distrust people who aren't honest.

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To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.

Noun
the trait of not trusting others

Noun
doubt about someone''s honesty

Verb
regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in

v. t.
To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.

n.
Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc.

n.
Suspicion of evil designs.

n.
State of being suspected; loss of trust.

Distrust

Dis*trust" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distrusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Distrusting.] [Cf. Mistrust.] To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.

Not distrusting my health.

To distrust the justice of your cause.

He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other.

Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid.

&hand; Mistrust has been almost wholly driven out by distrust. T. L. K. Oliphant.

Distrust

Dis*trust", n. 1. Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc. 2. Suspicion of evil designs.

Alienation and distrust . . . are the growth of false principles.

3. State of being suspected; loss of trust. Milton.

To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.

Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc.

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Usage Examples

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

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Other Usage Examples

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.