(a.) Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.
(a.) Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Don't we by chance come across this reciprocal spiral perspective when two people distrust one another without actually showing it?
(2) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
(3) (The leadership may distrust him, but surely couldn't, in such circumstances, keep him out of cabinet.)
(4) The public, throughout the years of the coalition government, has been empowered to distrust teachers.
(5) We should distrust those who sell the snake oil of simple solutions,” he said today.
(6) So little wonder that the spectacle of five safety incidents in a week – however minor – could trigger rumblings of distrust from a nervous public.
(7) Rioters revealed that a complex mix of grievances brought them on to the streets but analysts appointed by the LSE identified distrust and antipathy toward police as a key driving force.
(8) Particular attention is given to the effect that an environment of intensified anger, hostility, distrust, and despair has on the coping mechanisms of terminally ill, incarcerated patients.
(9) That spirit of co-operation represents a drastic change from the calamitous Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, when diplomatic snubs and general distrust between the two countries wrecked any prospect for a deal.
(10) Hassan said a ceasefire could theoretically benefit the rebels if it were implemented in good faith, but that many distrust the government’s motives.
(11) It’s fuelled by distrust of the fact that major labels own at least 18% of the company through equity stakes granted when it was negotiating its first licences in 2007 and 2008.
(12) There are numerous studies now on how there are no connections between autism and immunization.” “The main place that [mercury] still exists is in the flu vaccines and people have the option to get the flu vaccine without mercury in it.” Carrey has expressed his distrust of vaccinations in the past.
(13) Above all it needs to happen soon, before the contagion, and the poisonous distrust it engenders, spread further.
(14) In Yokohama, distrust of medical care appeared to be higher among those interviewees who did not have a family doctor than those who had.
(15) Appalling events illustrating the distrust between law enforcement and the communities they serve, particularly communities of color, continue to manifest day after day in neighborhoods across America,” said Kanya Bennett, of the American Civil Liberties Union.
(16) The spiral of distrust may continue without a semblance of the following remedies.
(17) So when you give them that, of course they’re going to fund you and give you resources and connect you to the right people.” That there are imams on the taskforce is also a concern to imam Hassan Jaamici Mohamud, who believes it conflates church and state, and could cause distrust among the congregations.
(18) The legal drama adds to political uncertainty at a time when the government can ill afford to be distracted from a dizzying array of crises, including widespread unrest over electricity shortages and Pakistan's deeply distrustful relationship with the US.
(19) This goes to the foundational relationship between law enforcement agencies and the communities that they’re sworn to serve and to protect.” In remarks at the meeting Obama said the “simmering distrust” between police and minority communities was not unique to St Louis but relevant to communities across the country.
(20) Intended to foster a sense of belonging and being part of a collective endeavour, it instead turned Beijing into a place of introverted islands, separated by competition and mutual distrust.
Untrust
Definition:
(n.) Distrust.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s when we have untrusted heads of these old institutions that everything seems ripe for revolution – if someone has the guts and ingenuity to really go for it.
(2) At this rate, Barclays risks being deeper into the untrusted category in those all-important surveys.
(3) When a charitable nonprofit like Mozilla makes a shift as substantial as this one – installing closed-source software designed to treat computer users as untrusted adversaries – you’d expect there to be a data-driven research story behind it, meticulously documenting the proposition that without DRM irrelevance is inevitable.
(4) These tools can also jump in and alert you if you’re trying to install an app that’s known to be malicious, and warn you if a “ phishing ” attack is trying to trick you into entering a password into an untrusted app or webpage.
(5) Well, that public support is about to be tested, as untrusted politicians go head to head with a much-trusted sector.
(6) The decision to produce systems that treat internet users as untrusted adversaries to be controlled by their computers was clearly taken out of a sense of desperation and inevitability.
(7) They should also be wary of links from untrusted sources, as these may be used to launch a malicious Office file from a criminal hacker’s website.
(8) He had grown up feeling unloved and untrusting, hating authority, strong men and needy women.
(9) He dropped out of school, withdrew into himself, and lived with “this really uncomfortable feeling” that made intimacy impossible, and left him “very untrusting, emotionally in a place that I wasn’t equipped to deal with the demands of X Factor – people controlling you, having to trust people you don’t know”.
(10) He has made her a friend to tyrants and an enemy to the oppressed, and untrusted by nations that seek to build a safer, more peaceful and prosperous world.
(11) Users are advised to be wary of emails from untrusted contacts.
(12) But if he doesn’t, it will come to seem like an omen on a night when the public reminded the politicians that, however watchful and untrusting voters might be, they are also intensely, even ruthlessly engaged.
(13) "The likelihood of an American experiencing a deficit in social support, having less exposure to diverse others, not being able to consider opposing points of view, being untrusting, or otherwise being disengaged from their community and American society generally is unlikely to be a result of how they use technology, especially in comparison to common predictors," concluded the report.
(14) It is a significant challenge to establish trust and control across this enormous range of ‘things’, particularly when they are widely distributed, and often deployed on a scale of millions, to highly untrusted locations, or are handling particularly sensitive data.
(15) Fighting infections in the 21st century is less about washing your hands and more about not clicking on untrusted email attachments.