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distrust
[ dis-truhst ]
noun
- lack of trust; doubt; suspicion.
distrust
/ dɪsˈtrʌst /
verb
- to regard as untrustworthy or dishonest
noun
- suspicion; doubt
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Derived Forms
- disˈtruster, noun
- disˈtrustfully, adverb
- disˈtrustfulness, noun
- disˈtrustful, adjective
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Other Words From
- dis·truster noun
- predis·trust noun verb (used with object)
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Example Sentences
Bridging the divide between the police and those who distrust them will take more than protests and symbolic gestures.
Liberals distrust business and anyone with power—better to tell them exactly what to do.
Conservatives distrust public officials and want to shackle them with detailed rules.
Bound together by mutual distrust, both sides end up lashing themselves to the mast of rigid law.
Can you chip away at the distrust of the police among black people?
Such mutual distrust necessarily creates or accompanies a lack of moral courage.
Here was the strangeness of it: that he did not distrust Lettice, nor felt resentment against Tony.
Robinson looked at him suspiciously as he took it, and the animals eyed him with evident distrust.
On the following afternoon he found her, for instance, radiant with that exuberant happiness he had learned now to distrust.
However cleverly the pill was gilded, the Marshal knew that it was the Emperor's distrust which had lost him the command.
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