untrustworthy
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4.8
- adjective
- /ʌnˈtrʌstˌwɜrði/
:
poco fiable
- Would you tell me if you thought Naomi was untrustworthy?
- increasingly untrustworthy
- become untrustworthy
And the other one is kind of shifty and untrustworthy or mysterious.
- And the other one is kind of shifty and untrustworthy or mysterious.
- Yeah, 'cause you know, in this situation, this, you're dealing with an untrustworthy person, right?
- How do we look for signs that somebody might be untrustworthy?
- And the media are completely untrustworthy for a single reason.
- And I think what people are potentially trying to highlight there is this person is untrustworthy.
- And he found images that Lesnie had been producing in service of that paper that he regarded as suspect, untrustworthy.
- I mean, analogies like these are often untrustworthy that are details humans are not in fact ants.
- They became untrustworthy, but I never noticed that I still had them.
- Meaning he will start to behave in ways that you will not start to question as untrustworthy.
Examples
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Deep down l always knew he was untrustworthy.
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This government's conduct of economic policy has not only been incompetent, it has been unscrupulous, untrustworthy and untruthful.
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And the media are completely untrustworthy for a single reason.
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I am now responsible for warning an untrustworthy student that he must watch his back.
Fiction book (2002) -
That woman is absolutely untrustworthy.
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At the same time, this very behavior made him untrustworthy to everybody.
Academic text (2003) -
Throughout his book, medical practitioners emerge as untrustworthy and self-interested characters.
Academic text (2014) -
You seem untrustworthy.
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Growing up with his left-behind mother, Tim had come to think of love as untrustworthy, a mirage.
Fiction book (2002) -
I cannot rely on him to finish the project because he is untrustworthy.
Synonyms
90
6.5
Not clearly true or trustworthy and causing doubt
71
4.1
Not able to be trusted to work or be right
12
5.6
Not loyal and likely to betray people who trust them
5
3.4
Not loyal to a person you trust
3
4.7
Likely to fail or disappoint people
1
5.0
People do not see it as safe or reliable
1
4.2
Not true to the original work or facts
1
8.6
A little suspicious and not easy to trust
Not safe to depend on because they may fail or betray you
A situation where people do not feel safe and avoid honest conversation
A person or thing that seems dishonest and not trustworthy
Antonyms
How Trustworthy
Surface Forms
Morphology
untrustworthy = trustworthy (transparent) = un + trust + worthy
The adjective is formed by adding the productive negative prefix 'un-' to the clear base 'trustworthy', yielding the straightforward negation.
Etymology
Untrustworthy breaks into un- 'not', trust 'to believe someone', and worthy 'deserving', so the parts are all familiar English words. So, untrustworthy means someone or something 'not deserving' of your trust, in other words unreliable.