to distrust

Examples

• All

• Dissident activity taught its practitioners to distrust others and to stand on principle, come what may.

  Academic text (1996)

• But you don't have any reason to distrust me, do you?

  The Believers (1987)

• I was raised to, you know, to, to distrust people in power.

  Dr. Mayim Bialik

• I distrust a man who says "when."

  The Maltese Falcon (1941)

• You know how much I distrust love letters, but still I must write to you.

  Fiction book (1994)

• When words and body language do not align, parents might distrust the words.

  Academic text (2011)

• The two types of political actors compete for power and distrust each other.

  Academic text (2001)

• I don't know; we grew to distrust each other and stopped being friends.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The stories soon reached the three elk, and they began to distrust one another.

  Fiction book (1997)

• And I have no current reason to distrust your motives or your zeal.

  Fiction book (1990)

Synonyms

M

to mistrust

vsto distrust

12 3.5

To not trust someone or something

is the same meaning but uses an alternate single word form

D

to don't believe a word of

vsto distrust

12 4.1

Not believe anything someone says

is general lack of trust rather than only disbelief in speech

Antonyms

T

to trust

∞ 1.0

To believe someone will do what they say

Compounds

S

self-distrust

6.8

Feeling unable to rely on your own choices or skills

How Distrustful

to suspect

382 3.7

to distrust

31 4.2

to doubt

∞ 1.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology