suspectverb

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Trusting and not trusting
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
untrustworthy

Examples of distrusted

distrusted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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.
In this emerging political culture of confrontation, dialogue was distrusted and to 'be political ' involved a show of force.
Central officials, who had greater revenue resources, distrusted certain efforts made by local officials for the implementation of national goals.
There are three kinds of values around during reduction: trusted, distrusted and untagged.
Submission sometimes led to incorporation, but often to a tenuous relation between reluctant subjects and distrusted overlords.
Parents were often unaware of, or unable to use, blocking software and rating services; they also distrusted self-regulation by web-site operators.
He simply distrusted politics and relied more on cultural, psychological and aesthetic stimulation to change.
This is not to say, though, that democratic majorities should be radically distrusted.
Politics, however, is seriously distrusted and has been the target of dissatisfaction almost all through the postwar years.
There are ways to calculate the standard errors to account for vaguely specified or distrusted aspects of the model.
She distrusted the "modern enchantment with 'small things,'" the public expansion of the "extraordinary and infectious charms" of private, everyday life.
Although they distrusted the masses and viewed intellectuals as a unique class, the university's advocates believed that intellectuals should play a leading role in politics.
It is worth noting that those who trusted the legal system outnumbered those who distrusted it.
The allies might have greater numbers and resources to put into the field, but they also distrusted each other.
Assuming that anyone could be a political enemy, people distrusted those they did not know and stopped giving information about their actions even to their nearest neighbours.
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