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mis·trust
(mĭs-trŭst′)n.
Lack of trust or confidence: I viewed the stranger's advice with mistrust.
tr.v. mis·trust·ed, mis·trust·ing, mis·trusts
1. To regard without trust or confidence: He mistrusted his lieutenant.
2. To doubt the truth or sincerity of: I mistrust everything he says.
mis·trust′ful adj.
mis·trust′ful·ly adv.
mis·trust′ful·ness n.
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mistrust
(ˌmɪsˈtrʌst)vb
to have doubts or suspicions about (someone or something)
n
distrust
ˌmisˈtruster n
ˌmisˈtrustful adj
ˌmisˈtrustfully adv
ˌmisˈtrustfulness n
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mis•trust
(mɪsˈtrʌst)n.
1. lack of trust or confidence; distrust.
v.t. 2. to regard with mistrust, suspicion, or doubt; distrust.
3. to suspect or surmise.
v.i. 4. to be distrustful.
[1350–1400]
mis•trust′er, n.
mis•trust′ful, adj.
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Trust/Mistrust
See Also: UNCERTAINTY
- Finding paranoia in your heart is like discovering a lump in your breast —just knowing it’s there won’t make it go away —Jerry Bumpus
- As confiding as a doe peeping between the tree trunks —Vita Sackville-West
- As suspicious of me as Hamlet was of his mother —Daphne Merkin
- Carried years of suspicion strapped to her hip like a gun —Ann Jasperson
- Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint —The Holy Bible/Proverbs
- Confidence (in their amorous destinies) like that of birds in their wings —William Faulkner
- Confidence, like the soul, never returns, once it is gone —Publius Syrus
- Doubt … secret and gnawing like a worm —Joseph Conrad
- Doubts seemed to steam like wet flies inside his own head —Julia O’Faolain
- Head … awhirl with doubts like a sky full of starlings —George Garrett
- He was like a suspicion-caked old prospector —Ellery Queen
- It [the thought that something was not right] was on the edge of her mind like a speck at the corner of your eye or fluff in your nostril —Julia O’Faolain
- Lean on … like a man on crutches —Ross Macdonald
- Mistrust swells like a prune —Marge Piercy
- No more to be trusted (with news) than a cat with a saucer of milk —Christopher Isherwood
- Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight —Francis Bacon
- Suspicion developed like a muscle —F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Suspicious … as a rat near strange bread —Patrick Kavanagh
- Suspicious as a wild cat —Frank Swinnerton
- Trust as I’d trust a rattlesnake —Anon
- A trust, fierce and passionate, burning in her like a prayer —F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Trust flourishes like a potato plant, mostly underground —Marge Piercy
- As trusting to the future as a blind sky-diver —Richard Ford
- Trust is like an egg and it’s not like an egg. If you want to break an egg you have to do it from the outside. The only way to break up a trust is from the inside —O. Henry
- Trustworthy as advice given by a cat to a mouse —Anon
A simile with clear links to an Arabic proverb: “He gives advice such as a cat gives to a mouse.”
- Wearing doubt like a raincoat —Carlos Baker
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mistrust
Past participle: mistrusted
Gerund: mistrusting
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Noun | 1. | mistrust - doubt about someone's honesty doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty - the state of being unsure of something |
2. | mistrust - the trait of not trusting others trait - a distinguishing feature of your personal nature suspiciousness, suspicion - being of a suspicious nature; "his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage" | |
Verb | 1. | mistrust - regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in disbelieve, discredit - reject as false; refuse to accept doubt - lack confidence in or have doubts about; "I doubt these reports"; "I suspect her true motives"; "she distrusts her stepmother" |
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mistrust
noun
1. suspicion, scepticism, distrust, doubt, uncertainty, apprehension, misgiving, wariness, dubiety There was mutual mistrust between the two men.
verb
1. be wary of, suspect, beware, distrust, apprehend, have doubts about You should mistrust all journalists.
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mistrust
noun2. A lack of conviction or certainty:
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Translations
عَدَم ثِقَه، سوء ظَنلا يَثِق، يَرْتاب، يُسيء الظَّن
nedůvěranedůvěřovat
mistro
epäluottamus
nem bízik
vantraustvantreysta
be pasitikėjimoįtariaiįtariai žiūrėti įįtarus
neuzticētiesneuzticībaturēt aizdomās
güvenmemekgüvensizlik
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mistrust
[ˌmɪsˈtrʌst]1. n mistrust (of) → diffidenza (nei confronti di)
2. vt (person, motives) → diffidare di; (one's own abilities) → dubitare di
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
mistrust
(misˈtrast) verb to have no confidence or trust in.
noun lack of confidence in something.
ˌmisˈtrustful adjectiveˌmisˈtrustfully adverb
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