mistrust
/mɪsˈtɹʌst/ verb C2- To have no confidence in (something or someone).
- To be wary, suspicious or doubtful of (something or someone).
- To suspect, to imagine or suppose (something) to be the case.
- To be suspicious.
Plural mistrust · He/she/it mistrusts · Past mistrusted · Past participle mistrusted · -ing form mistrusting
Verb forms
- Base form
- mistrust
- He/she/it
- mistrusts
- Past
- mistrusted
- Past participle
- mistrusted
- -ing form
- mistrusting
From the library
Villefort’s first impression was favorable; but he had been so often warned to mistrust first impulses, that he applied the maxim to the impression, forgetting the difference between the two words.
He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts, but he had a mistrust of men because Bagheera showed him a square box with a drop gate so cunningly hidden in the jungle that he nearly walked into it, and told him that it was a trap.
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