untrustworthiness
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7.2
- noun
- /ʌnˈtrʌstˌwɜrðɪnəs/
:
falta de confianza
- Many companies were reluctant to hire her because her history of untrustworthiness made them doubt her reliability.
Examples
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Moreover, the Jewish nose embodied every negative Jewish stereotype, chiefly untrustworthiness and immorality (Mosse 65-66).
Academic text (2012) -
The most common relied-on grounds are dishonesty, untrustworthiness, breach of the fiduciary duty which certain senior employees owe, and incompetence.
Academic text (1990) -
Well, voters can smell inconsistency from a mile away; they call it untrustworthiness, and they are right.
Blog text (18) -
As the period's most successful forger of historical documents, Iolo was more aware of the untrustworthiness of print than most.
Academic text (2016) -
Examples of this can be seen in a series of cases in which bank employees dismissed for dishonesty or untrustworthiness have been ordered reinstated.
Academic text (1990) -
Rather than looking for someone to trust, the vigilant investor has learned to look for indicia of untrustworthiness and fraud.
Blog text (33) -
His topic isn't just the untrustworthiness of perception and perspective itself, but the oppressiveness of the maelstrom.
Academic text (2010) -
Enemies of the sisterhood heaped scorn on Meyer's report, although they disagreed about the nature of its untrustworthiness.
Fiction book (1994) -
Transmitted against the backdrop of the ongoing Second World War, it may become clear that his counter-narration follows the lines of denegation; it exploits the opportunity to gather reliability through the admission of his own unreliability or untrustworthiness.
Academic text (2009) -
BLS Nelson, I think the TJ affair is most instructive with respect to the in-between zone that rests between untrustworthiness on one side and philosophical discussion deserving of charity on the other.
Blog text (23)
Synonyms
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5.5
Not being dependable or able to be trusted
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7.7
Not being loyal or keeping promises to people who trust you
A state in which someone or something cannot be trusted
A person or thing that cannot be trusted
Not able to be trusted to work or be right
Something that seems wrong, unsafe, or not honest
Antonyms
How Trustworthy
Surface Forms
Morphology
untrustworthiness = untrustworthy (transparent) = un + trust + worthy + ness
Forming a noun with '-ness' from the adjective 'untrustworthy' is a regular and directly interpretable derivation.
Etymology
Untrustworthiness is built from un- 'not', trust 'belief in someone', and -worthiness 'worth' or 'value'. So, untrustworthiness means 'not deserving of trust', which is why we use it for people or things you cannot rely on.