mistrust
mistrust
Definition
mis·trust (mis′trust′, mis trust′)
noun
lack of trust or confidence; suspicion; doubt
transitive verb, intransitive verb
to have no trust or confidence in (someone or something); doubt
mis·trust′·ful adjective
mistrust
Synonyms
mistrust
Synonyms
mistrust
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- institution: Our research shows that mistrust of official institutions affects attitudes to these issues.
- science: What do you think of public mistrust of science?
- government: Perhaps because the mistrust of government has now reached levels that even Downing Street must find alarming.
- people: It's come across more as a general fear and mistrust of the people in power.
- authority: Or will property rights and mistrust of central authority win the day?
- motive: There's a profound contemporary prejudice against such art, perhaps a mistrust of the motives of those making it.
Converse of object
- overcome: Perhaps the bruises of his childhood never healed enough for him to overcome a fundamental mistrust of his fellow human beings.
- breed: Tensions are high as the different races, religions and cultures seldom mix, breeding mistrust and fear of anything that is different.
- grow: Do we want to have fun, to make noise, to act on our growing mistrust?
- increase: These disputes can often cause anger and stress and if allowed to continue, can lead to increasing mistrust and even threats.
- create: The competitive build-up of weapons, apart from impoverishing us all, creates the damaging mistrust that often leads to war.
- cause: In a number of cases, lobbying has caused considerable public mistrust of the councils.
Adjective modifier
- instinctive: I suspect that some people who read his resignation statement and some of you reading this blog have an instinctive mistrust of Labor Students.
- mutual: According to Liam, ' because of the extraordinary discrepancy in height between us ' ; a band united only by their mutual mistrust.
- widespread: Measures to encourage future take-up must tackle the widespread mistrust which such households feel for many financial providers.
- deep: There is a deep mistrust of British Gas management.
- public: What do you think of public mistrust of science?
- general: There's a gentle but sharp humor at work here; their lifelong friendship only barely covers over a general mistrust.
Preposition: on
- side: The site was difficult to develop and the project took a while to develop due to ' fear and mistrust on all sides ' .
Modifying Another Word
- deeply: But the left was anyway deeply mistrusted - French Communists having been implicated in the colonial war.
Browse dictionary entries near mistrust
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