as in doubted
to have no trust or confidence in
a recluse who mistrusts her neighbors and stays in her house all day
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Recent Examples of mistrusted
Dialogue tended to be sparse in those movies, too, because people mistrusted language then, and Reichardt also likes her speeches laconic.
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2026
Those framers mistrusted power in all forms, everywhere.
—Jack Fink, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
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
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
Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2026
Those framers mistrusted power in all forms, everywhere.
—Jack Fink, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mistrusted
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You’ll be doubted, copied, and misunderstood.—
Essence,
Essence,
21 Jan. 2026
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Some doubted that the car had been bombed or that anyone had been killed.—
Oriana van Praag,
New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The defense also claims Mangione was questioned before his Miranda rights were read.—
Lisa Rozner,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Defense attorneys questioned whether Jimenez truly believed the messages were a solicitation for murder.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Mistrusted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mistrusted. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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