Synonyms of mistrusted

mistrusted

verb

past tense of mistrust

as in doubted

to have no trust or confidence in

a recluse who mistrusts her neighbors and stays in her house all day

Synonyms & Similar Words

• doubted
• questioned
• distrusted
• suspected
• misdoubted
• disbelieved
• discounted
• discredited
• negated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• trusted
• relied (on or upon)
• counted (on or upon)
• depended (on or upon)
• banked (on or upon)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mistrusted

Crucially, Miliband is also mistrusted by the trade unions, Labour’s biggest paymasters. — Ian King, CNBC, 15 July 2026

No individual or corporation may, by becoming sufficiently mistrusted by public opinion or a few public officials, be subjected in court to a wholesale confiscation of its assets beyond what the law permits. — David B McGarry, Oc Register, 8 July 2026

The theory holds that when a government or leader becomes deeply unpopular or mistrusted, any action—good or bad—will be viewed with intense hostility and suspicion by their counterpart. — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2026

Israel has long mistrusted UNIFIL, accusing it of failing to prevent Hezbollah from building up its military presence along the border in violation of ceasefire agreements going back two decades. — Arkansas Online, 8 Feb. 2026

Some Labor lawmakers are calling for Starmer to fire his top aide Morgan McSweeney, a powerful backroom figure mistrusted by many Labor lawmakers, and widely seen as a key force behind Mandelson’s appointment. — Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026

Dialogue tended to be sparse in those movies, too, because people mistrusted language then, and Reichardt also likes her speeches laconic. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2026

Those framers mistrusted power in all forms, everywhere. — Jack Fink, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025

Historian Terry Bouton has argued compellingly that most of the framers, landholding elites, deeply mistrusted the mass of American countrymen, and saw democracy as a wild, unruly stallion that needed to be tamed. — Matthew Redmond august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025