distrusted; distrusting; distrusts
: to have no trust or confidence in
Examples of distrust in a Sentence
Noun
He has a distrust of doctors.
the psychic's bold claims were greeted with distrust and outright scorn
Verb
She's always distrusted their promises.
we instinctively distrust those phone calls that tell us we have won a free vacation or car
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
And most of the angst can be traced to a deep distrust of the committee.
—Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
That might foster the adoption of more competitive, distrusting, and normless beliefs, and result in a higher D.
People in Mexico and Indonesia, and US states like Nevada and Louisiana – which had reported higher levels of all four ASCs – had higher D scores.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 20 June 2025
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Noun
Fuels Media Illiteracy And Distrust AI’s mass content output is fueling media illiteracy and public distrust, blurring the line between fact and fabrication.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
And most of the angst can be traced to a deep distrust of the committee.
—Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
Verb
Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Iran disintegrated, and the two countries have held strained, distrusting relations over the past four-decades.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
That might foster the adoption of more competitive, distrusting, and normless beliefs, and result in a higher D.
People in Mexico and Indonesia, and US states like Nevada and Louisiana – which had reported higher levels of all four ASCs – had higher D scores.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 20 June 2025
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“Distrust.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/distrust. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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distrust
1 of 2 verb
dis·trust
(ˈ)dis-ˈtrəst 
: to have no trust or confidence in
distrust
2 of 2 noun
: a lack of trust or confidence
distrustful
adjective
-fəl
distrustfully
adverb
-fə-lē
distrustfulness
noun
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