mistrust

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Lack of trust or confidence

   Lack of trust or confidence; distrust, untrust.

2. 2

   To have no confidence in (something or someone).

   • The Britans marching out againſt them, and miſtruſting thir own power, ſend to Germanus and his Collegue, repoſing more in the ſpiritual ſtrength of thoſe two men, than in thir own thouſands arm’d.
   • He mistrusted my youth, my common-sense, and my seamanship, and made a point of showing it in a hundred little ways.
3. 3

   To be wary, suspicious or doubtful of (something or someone).

   • The innocent beauty of her face was not as innocent to me as it had been; I mistrusted the natural grace and charm of her manner […]
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   1. 4

      To suspect, to imagine or suppose (something) to be the case.

   2. 5

      To be suspicious.

      • She wuz soft in her complexion, her lips, her cheeks, her hands, and as I mistrusted at that first minute, and found out afterwards, soft in her head too.
      • And yes, she has long mistrusted That a cider apple tree In bearing there to-day is hers, Or at least may be.

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• synonymdistrust
• antonymtrust