Object

• politician: He distrusted politicians: ' Never make a politician grant you a favor.

Converse of object

• overcome: Is it possible to forgive and to overcome the mutual distrust?

• grow: A growing distrust of globalization contributed to this too.

• express: What does cause concern, however, is the mood of distrust expressed in this no-vote.

• create: The facts are bound to come out sooner or later and create distrust among all employees of the house.

• increase: It shows an increasing distrust of genetic engineering in food.

Adjective modifier

• mutual: There is some mutual respect, there is some mutual distrust.

• widespread: In part, widespread distrust of the media in Peru stems from the country's recent past.

• profound: He wrote to a friend: " I must confess to the most profound distrust of Russia.

• deep: There was deep distrust in the run-up to the 1994 elections.

• public: The leak deepens public distrust of the entire process.

• general: There is no crisis of confidence or general distrust in evidence.

Modifies a noun

• politician: Posted by: Chuck Unsworth at March 27, 2006 12:53 PM I distrust politicians of all stripes.

Modifying Another Word

• deeply: Few of the people that I meet in current affairs broadcasting seem to have any idea how deeply distrusted they are by the public.

Preposition: of

• foreigner: The warm praise that we might give ourselves about the inclusive nature of Britishness can still be accompanied by a cold distrust of foreigners.

• politician: Further, with his ingrained distrust of English politicians, he thought the balance of wrong was on the English side.

• science: Science and ethics Fear and distrust of science is not new and what people think of as fact often changes over time.

• institution: A false world is beginning to get the amount of support it deserves: distrust of public institutions is almost total.

• government: For my distrust of governments was not limited to Germany.

• medium: In part, widespread distrust of the media in Peru stems from the country's recent past.