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How to use mistrust in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun, verb

Mistrust means lack of trust or confidence; distrust, untrust. Example: “Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust.”

Examples of mistrust by meaning

verbTo be wary, suspicious or doubtful of (something or someone).

  • At first the public mistrusted it, and a wooden-legged man called "Bumper" Harris was engaged to travel up and down all day to give passengers confidence.1957 July, Charles E. Lee, “The Changing Face of Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 451

More sentences with mistrust

  • Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust.From the entry habitual
  • This has led to the deep-seated mistrust of soldiers who report sick or declare themselves unfit.2018 May 3, “To Prevent More Deaths Like Pte Dave Lee’s, Chao Keng Culture Must End”, in Rice. From the entry chao keng
  • The merchant of mistrust dismisses these words as hyperbole and remains grim, sullen, fearful.2000 October, Brennan Manning, “The Way of Trust”, in Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin’s Path to God, [San Francisco, Calif.]…. From the entry happies
  • Actions cannot be guaranteed if dialoguers are blinded by refusal to change from mistrust to trust, from suspicion to recognition.2014, Oliver O. Nwachukwu, Those Challenging Cracks of Secularism: In and Beyond. From the entry dialoguer
  • A horrid mistrust of the whole house possessed me.1919, Joseph Conrad, chapter VII, in The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], →OCLC, part V, page…. From the entry possess
  • At a time when we should be focusing on rebuilding trust in the police, this Bill risks stoking further mistrust and undermining their vital role in protecting the public.2022 December 17, Martin Evans, quoting Mike Barton et al., “Law to curb Just Stop Oil protests ‘a sledgehammer to crack a nut’, say…. From the entry use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
  • And, Gold adds, he can understand that West Ham's famously dedicated supporters, Londoners though they themselves mainly are, may mistrust businessmen "coming into the club and talking about loyalty.2012 August 19, Robert Chalmers, “Golden balls: West Ham United's co-owner reveals his cunning plan for the Olympic stadium”, in The…. From the entry manor
  • The Sadjid ostikans were eager to foster mistrust amongst the nakharars, seeking to destabilize Bagratuni rule and to usurp the Bagratuni king's right to send taxes to the caliph.2007, Lynn Jones, Between Islam and Byzantium: Aght'amar and the Visual Construction of Medieval Armenian Rulership. From the entry ostikan
  • The employees express their perceptions and feelings in their own langage, the discussions were videotaped, and used for decreasing misfactors such as misperceptions, misevaluations, and mistrust.2005, SM Lee, “A Exploratory Study on the Efficient Strategies for Cross-Cultural in the Hospitality Industry”, in The Journal of the…. From the entry misfactor
  • Strong on administrative competence, the ministers as a group were united in their indebtedness to Fleury and in a collective mistrust of any putative successor from the court.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 120–1. From the entry indebtedness
  • For "medium customers", the beginnings of the conception of the metaconsumer takes place on the base of many frustrations: the time of mistrust and the loss of privileges.1996, Ulrike Schöneberg, Consumer Trends in Banking and Insurance, page 64. From the entry metaconsumer
  • I mistrusted every sound and shadow, everything; the kind of constant, blinkless mistrust that becomes stubborn in you when your life has become up for grabs.1961, Donald Honig, chapter 9, in Walk Like a Man, New York: William Sloane Associates, page 181. From the entry blinkless

Meaning of mistrust

  1. noun Lack of trust or confidence; distrust, untrust.
  2. verb To have no confidence in (something or someone).
  3. verb To be wary, suspicious or doubtful of (something or someone).

Full definition of mistrust

Questions about mistrust in a sentence

How do you use mistrust in a sentence?
Mistrust is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust.”
What is a short sentence with mistrust?
“A horrid mistrust of the whole house possessed me.”
What does mistrust mean?
Mistrust means lack of trust or confidence; distrust, untrust.

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