trustworthy

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

deceiving others and not telling the truth
dishonestThe press called out the campaign's dishonest tactics.
untrustworthyHe made the mistake of basing his news story on an untrustworthy source.
deviousIt was a devious plan - but would it work?
deceitfulShe's deeply deceitful and not to be trusted.

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
mistrustful
mistrustfully
non-confidence
not trust someone an/one inchidiom
put/place your faith in something/someoneidiom
trustable
turn to someone/something
untrusting
untrustworthiness

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Not believable

Examples of untrustworthy

untrustworthy
However, there are still paths in the function such that untrustworthy information may leak through if the function is called with untrustworthy arguments.
Perpetually untrustworthy individuals are identified and ostracized within the organization, and in turn the overall security of the organization is maintained.
This is, by and large, an effect of the local authorities' historical record of being untrustworthy.
We have now an assumption in addition to the assumption that every agent is transworld untrustworthy.
There is much evidence that people were suspicious of their neighbours and large numbers thought them untrustworthy (1998 : 181).
But the revised free-will defence does assume that there are worlds in which every essence is transworld untrustworthy.
A general strike, therefore, would not only endanger what remained of regular work, but would confirm to employers the untrustworthy nature of any future agreement.
Physicians may belong to both corporate and bargaining collectives that, if untrustworthy, may influence the trust that patients have in physicians.
So a world in which every essence is transworld untrustworthy is perfectly consistent with the ideal-world thesis.
A perceived "cover-up" could lead a patient or family member to conclude that the professional is disloyal and untrustworthy.
Given those reasons, we are left with no basis for believing that there is some world in which every essence is transworld untrustworthy.
But we can be certain that every instance of every transworld untrustworthy essence might do something wrong.
So it is possible that the crime figures were untrustworthy.
Data in pervasive computing environments may be generated by untrustworthy or inaccurate sources, and so should be taken 'with a grain of salt'.
A single example from a writer trying to convey a way of speaking other than his own is untrustworthy evidence.
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