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Definition of Distrust

1. Noun. Doubt about someone's honesty.

2. Verb. Regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in. "They want to distrust the prisoners "

3. Noun. The trait of not trusting others.

Definition of Distrust

1. v. t. To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.

2. n. Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc.

Definition of Distrust

1. Noun. Lack of trust or confidence. ¹

2. Verb. To put no trust in; to have no confidence in. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Distrust

1. to have no trust in [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Distrust

districted districthood districting distriction districtly districts districtual districtwide distrix distro

distros distrouble distroubled distroubles distroubling distrust (current term) distrusted distruster distrusters distrustful

distrustfully distrustfulness distrusting distrustingly distrustless distrusts distune distuned distunes distuning

Literary usage of Distrust

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"distrust of France. Henry, however, felt no confidence either in tho sin cerity of the ... 1 So cold an answer could have arisen only from deep distrust; ..."

2. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1866)
"CHAPTER X. The date of distrust in the Southern mind.—Observation of General Lee.—A peculiar moral condition of the Confederacy. ..."

3. The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages. Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor (1908)
"This distrust was justified so far that, from December, 1513, to July, 1514, the policy of the Pope seemed to be friendly to France.f This must be looked at ..."

4. Public Opinion and Popular Government by Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1913)
"Cause of the distrust of Experts The American people distrust experts in public life for the same reason that the Athenians avoided officers chosen for long ..."

5. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... «nd what of the others, in consequence of men'* natural tendency to boasting with regard to their own numbers, was regarded with distrust. ..."

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