suspectverb

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
distrustful
distrustful of someone/something
distrustfully
have faith!idiom
I wouldn't trust someone as far as I could throw themidiom
mistrustfully
non-confidence
not trust someone an/one inchidiom
put/place your faith in something/someoneidiom
reliance
turn to someone/something
untrusting
untrustworthiness
untrustworthy

distrust | American Dictionary

distrust
noun[ U ]
us/dɪsˈtrʌst/
lack of trust or confidence:
Many Americans have a deep distrust of advertising.

distrust

verb[ T ]us/dɪsˈtrʌst/
According to this history book, John Adams, the second US president, hated and distrusted Britain.

distrustful

adjectiveus/dɪsˈtrʌst·fəl/

Examples of distrust

distrust
Poetry without a real grounding in the natural world he distrusts, but he also distrusts natural history which loses touch with the same ground.
The criminal, who distrusts me greatly, asks me for the whereabouts of my nemesis.
He denied him formal education which he distrusted ; instead he made him spend hours doing manual labour to develop his character and humility.
Central officials, who had greater revenue resources, distrusted certain efforts made by local officials for the implementation of national goals.
In reaction, people turned to informal networks of friends and family, creating an 'hour-glass' society in which individuals insulated themselves from distrusted formal organizations.
There are three kinds of values around during reduction: trusted, distrusted and untagged.
Politically conservative, they stood up for small shopkeepers and artisans, distrusted advertising and preferred 'quality' to cheapness and darning to new clothes.
They were not respecters of party lines and the last two in particular were widely distrusted among parliamentary colleagues.
On the whole, the economic elites had solid reasons for distrusting a corporatist-style arrangement.
Parents were often unaware of, or unable to use, blocking software and rating services; they also distrusted self-regulation by web-site operators.
He did not find one because he distrusted quantum mechanics.
He simply distrusted politics and relied more on cultural, psychological and aesthetic stimulation to change.
The elite distrusts democracy because it expects that any attempt at broad-based democracy will cause the society to spiral out of control.
In these problems, the decision maker does not use standard maximum likelihood estimators for his approximating model-he distrusts his likelihood function.
In this emerging political culture of confrontation, dialogue was distrusted and to 'be political ' involved a show of force.
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