Mistrust
[mɪs'trʌst] or [,mɪs'trʌst]
Definition
(n.) Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust.
(v. t.) To regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust.
(v. t.) To forebode as near, or likely to occur; to surmise.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Distrust, suspicion, doubt, misgiving, want of confidence.
v. a. [1]. Distrust, doubt, be suspicious of.[2]. Fear, apprehend, suspect.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Definition
n. want of trust or confidence.—v.t. to regard with suspicion: to doubt.—adj. Mistrust′ful full of mistrust.—adv. Mistrust′fully.—n. Mistrust′fulness.—adv. Mistrust′ingly with mistrust: without confidence.—adj. Mistrust′less without mistrust or suspicion.
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Examples
- She seemed to have a certain confidence in Gerald, and to feel a certain motherly mistrust of him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I'll not mistrust yo' no more. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Melnos is well defended, but I mistrust Andros—he is too much a friend of that rascal Alcibiades. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I mistrust Greek noblemen. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This might--let it be repeated--have awakened some little vague mistrust in a man more worldly-wise than the Golden Dustman. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As soon as they were in accord, they began mutually to mistrust each other. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I said that I did not blame him, or suspect him, or mistrust him, but I wanted assurance of the truth from him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I almost mistrusted myself as growing quite wicked in my suspicions, but I was not so sure that Richard loved her dearly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Yet I did not, and for the reason that I mistrusted that if I did, he would think me worse than I was. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And he mistrusted her, he was afraid of a woman capable of such abandon, such dangerous thoroughness of destructivity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I cried hot tears: not because Madame mistrusted me--I did not care twopence for her mistrust--but for other reasons. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was exactly because he had his staff, and presented so quaint an aspect, that she mistrusted his making the journey. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His ignorance, poor fellow, at last served him; he never mistrusted but that my inheritance was quite safe, with Mr. Jaggers's aid. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She wished that Blenkinsop were here to hear it: Blenkinsop always mistrusted that Miss Sharp. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She was very good-looking, but strangely enough, shy and self-mistrusting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Rick mistrusts and suspects me--goes to lawyers, and is taught to mistrust and suspect me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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