trust

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Trusting and not trusting
(you can) depend on/upon itidiom
accept/take something on faithidiom
bank
bank on someone/something
believe
believe in something
distrust
distrustful
distrustful of someone/something
distrustfully
have faith!idiom
mistrustfully
non-confidence
not trust someone an/one inchidiom
put/place your faith in something/someoneidiom
reliance
turn to someone/something
untrusting
untrustworthiness
untrustworthy

mistrust | American Dictionary

mistrust
verb[ T ]
us/mɪsˈtrʌst/
to have doubts about the honesty of someone or be unable to trust something:
I’ve always mistrusted leaders who make too many promises.

mistrust

noun[ U ]us/mɪsˈtrʌst/
Their mistrust of lawyers remained with them long after the lawsuit was settled.

Examples of mistrust

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However, our focus on consciousness - and the consequent mistrust of a cognitive unconscious - is hardly new.
Even seemingly highminded action must be probed by this sarcastic mistrust, until true motives are revealed.
The second technique is knowledge authentication, a family of cryptographic protocols that allow mistrusting parties to mutually compare information without actually revealing the information.
The ' war of independence ' inevitably served to intensify racial hostility, perpetuated as mutual mistrust thereafter since the negotiated settlement did not end the tension.
Anyway, we learned to mistrust easy answers to problems without precedent.
Some officers may be convinced of the need for reform, but the public fear and mistrust the police with good reason.
Nonetheless, the lack of understanding and mistrust of government prevented the project from moving ahead.
Likewise, teachers could be helped to see that patterns of resistance originate from mistrusting the adult.
By contrast, outside the village is associated with strangeness, danger and mistrust.
All of us have close friends who carry around with them the anger and mistrust born from their experiences.
This situation would only lead to mistrust of justice.
This new correctness mistrusts state interventionism and subsidies and vouches for the market to deliver growth and high living standards.
The process has taken two decades to complete, in part due to misunderstanding and mistrust of government on the part of aboriginal residents.
Second, in equal measure, it articulated a shared mistrust of outsiders.
The concept of distinguishing domestic and international politics comes from the superiority of the west and the mistrust of the outside world.
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