Crossword Dictionary

MISTRUST

distrust, mistrust, suspect - v 
regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in 

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Synonyms

distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, dubiety, dubitation [archaic], incertitude, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrustfulness, query, reservation, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty

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Examples

I apologize again for my mistrust.

Do we want to have fun, to make noise, to act on our growing mistrust?

The competitive build-up of weapons, apart from impoverishing us all, creates the damaging mistrust that often leads to war.

According to Liam, ' because of the extraordinary discrepancy in height between us '; a band united only by their mutual mistrust.

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Etymology

"doubt, regard with jealousy or suspicion," late 14c., mistrusten, from mis- (1) "badly, wrongly" + trust (v.). Related: Mistrusted; mistrusting.

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