untrustworthy

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Recent Examples of untrustworthy But when leaders are seen as untrustworthy that number drops to one in twelve. Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025 Star Toomey got a bad rap on Survivor 48, being pegged by other players as someone who was untrustworthy in the game. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 1 May 2025 There are security implications to AI running on untrustworthy data as well. Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025 Predictive lending requires access to data, and an untrustworthy provider might willingly or unwillingly share that data with the wrong people. Arleo Dordar, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for untrustworthy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untrustworthy
Adjective
  • Why Amazon Prime Day scammers are winning and how to stay ahead While Amazon hasn't released a formal statement yet, the company maintains ongoing efforts to detect and remove fraudulent listings and suspicious domains.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2025
  • Republished on July 4 with further police and federal agency warnings that fraudulent callers are now targeting smartphone users in the U.S. This is not the FBI.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • According to Orly Mazur, a tax specialist and associate professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, more people are likely willing to risk being dishonest when filing taxes.
    Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • And worse yet, someone might be dishonest with you.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • In the suit, filed Friday, Newsom says that Fox News had used deceptive edits to claim that the governor had lied in saying that Trump had not called him about deploying National Guard troops during the L.A. protests.
    Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
  • Florida is leading the way in what can become a national movement to crack down on hospitals’ deceptive and unfair billing practices.
    Cynthia A. Fisher, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Consider a car engine: Removing deposits and sludge (inaccurate, outdated, irrelevant and incorrect information) reduces friction, while clean oil (large language models and AI) ensures smooth performance.
    Savinay Berry, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • The buzzer was heard since that number was incorrect and the price of the car increased to 50 cents.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the claims are false.
    Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 3 July 2025
  • The City of Odessa, Texas, also said claims of a serial killer in the area were false in a Dec. 9 Facebook post.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • One of the company’s big assumptions about the phone had turned out to be wrong.
    Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 5 July 2025
  • However, according to the Baseball Rules Academy, the umpires got the call wrong.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2025

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“Untrustworthy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untrustworthy. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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