How to Use mistrust in a Sentence

mistrust

1 of 2 noun

• She has a strong mistrust of politicians.
• The seeds of this mistrust were planted years ago.
  — Lizzi C. Lee, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
• There’s a vibe of mistrust for the next few days anyway.
  — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 7 Feb. 2026
• Guardrails aren’t about mistrust or control.
  — Marc Serota, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
• The mistrust and frustration have deep roots.
  — Ayumi Teraoka, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2025
• The lack of a meeting conveyed the sense of mistrust between the two sides.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• When your owners have helped engender a lot of that mistrust?
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 10 Dec. 2025
• One is that this is the same level of mistrust seen back in 2016.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2022
• Some of that mistrust may be justified, Levine says.
  — Julia Simon, NPR, 7 Jan. 2026
• There’s a lot of mutual mistrust.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
• And clearly this doesn't solve the deep mistrust between these countries.
  — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• To your team, this can read as disengagement or mistrust.
  — Bymike McIsaac Cpa, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• Certainly, some forms of social bonds have earned their mistrust.
  — Peter Smith, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025
• That mistrust has a history and a logic.
  — Uché Blackstock, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
• The source explains that Meghan still has a level of mistrust towards the firm.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 27 Sep. 2025
• Residents warn that the show of force may deepen mistrust and drive children away from school.
  — Nik Popli, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
• Much of that mistrust is rooted in the unlikeliest of events.
  — Pete McKenzie, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
• Those troops are still there, and significant mistrust remains a threat to peace.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
• Deep mistrust The challenges facing teams on the ground are immense.
  — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 13 June 2026
• Still, with deep mistrust on both sides, the plan’s future remains uncertain.
  — Cameron Schoppa, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
• It is filled with trigger warnings, caveats, apologies and statements of mistrust.
  — Jamieson Webster, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• The conflict stemmed from her decision to put the home in her name only, which her spouse viewed as a sign of mistrust.
  — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
• What a strange feeling to go through the same motions, but with even more mistrust and trepidation.
  — Denise Snodell, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2025
• Biden vowed to return to the deal, but the two sides have been unable to overcome profound levels of mistrust.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• What stayed with the character was that guardedness, that way of seeing the world, the mistrust.
  — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
• Some of them express mistrust in the medical system.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
• These are the kind of baseless, harmful claims that can create mistrust toward victims.
  — EW.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• These are the kind of baseless, harmful claims that can create mistrust toward victims.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• These are the kind of baseless, harmful claims that can create mistrust toward victims.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• These are the kind of baseless, harmful claims that can create mistrust towards victims.
  — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 6 Aug. 2025

mistrust

2 of 2 verb

• I was starting to mistrust my own judgment.
• But in the two years since, there were all kinds of stories in the press that could have made one doubt and mistrust them.
  — Nicholas Thompson, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2018
• But the sources of such research cause it to be dismissed and mistrusted—unfairly or not.
  — Andrew Hamilton, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
• San Franciscans have learned to mistrust even the most promising of sunny days.
  — Holly Secon, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2022
• Children of parents like that will grow up to be mistrusting of others, among other issues.
  — Caralynn Lippo, Redbook, 13 Mar. 2017
• There are also some who mistrust either the government or those who developed the shot.
  — Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2021
• Those framers mistrusted power in all forms, everywhere.
  — Jack Fink, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
• Their own funding under strain, these lenders have started mistrusting borrowers that not long ago were ranked among the bluest of chips.
  — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2019
• But the region mistrusts both countries for different reasons.
  — Brad Lendon and Ivan Watson, CNN, 4 June 2019
• The narrator’s job is to teach us to mistrust the narrator, and thus to teach us how to read, and by teaching us how to read, teach us how to think.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026
• Its tendency was to trust markets and to mistrust regulation.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 15 May 2023
• The Fox News watchers, the big-time Fox News watchers, they have been taught to hate us and to mistrust us.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
• That brand of asymmetry helps explain why many people mistrust CNN.
  — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
• History is replete with examples of hostile acts and mistrust that each country often cites.
  — Amy Kellogg, Fox News, 11 May 2018
• Han said that Asians are deterred from reporting hate crimes for reasons ranging from cultural norms to mistrust.
  — Halley Bondy, NBC News, 6 May 2021
• The column did not help Coomer’s credibility among those inclined to mistrust him already.
  — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
• But writers are also bound to mistrust computers because, after all, where is the computer coming from?
  — WIRED, 2 Dec. 2022
• An institution once known across the world for best-practice medicine is now mistrusted by nearly half of all Americans.
  — MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
• And, either way, the public is taught to mistrust Article III.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Apr. 2021
• Won’t that tarnish Gilead’s reputation further and make everyone mistrust them even more?
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• Espionage and intelligence are so conducive to mistrust that the people who make the best use of them tend to be the most equable and disinclined to suspicion.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• That led to mistrust toward the medical system among Black communities.
  — Alander Rocha, al, 17 Feb. 2023
• Some people fundamentally mistrust ballots counted using a code that humans can’t read.
  — Jeff Amy, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
• Some people fundamentally mistrust ballots counted using a code that humans can't read.
  — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
• Surveys have found that they are deeply mistrusted by the public, often seen as doing the political bidding of whoever is in power.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• When a movie refuses to vary its pace, the audience subconsciously starts to mistrust the information and the exertions on the screen.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2022
• Franken is typical of a party that thinks people misunderstand rather than mistrust its never-ending promise to make the rich pay for everybody else’s stuff.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 Aug. 2017
• Wick mistrusts Borne, and Rachel’s refusal to give the newcomer up threatens the couple’s already doubtful alliance.
  — Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
• Crucially, Miliband is also mistrusted by the trade unions, Labour’s biggest paymasters.
  — Ian King, CNBC, 15 July 2026
• The big change since 2020 is that people who mistrust election results are highly active, particularly in swing states.
  — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026