(n.) Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust.
(v. t.) To regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust.
(v. t.) To forebode as near, or likely to occur; to surmise.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has increased costs, jeopardized the delivery of necessary medical services, and corroded the physician-patient relationship with mistrust and poor morale.
(2) Obstacles to successful treatment include an erratic schedule, mistrust of authority, and uncooperative or aggressive behavior.
(3) Police union officials have criticized de Blasio, saying he contributed to a climate of mistrusting police that set the stage for the killings.
(4) Most often the patient's mistrust covers profound feelings of personal inadequacy and is a defense against feared passivity.
(5) These broadcasts detailed mistrust in the police and the IPCC over Duggan's death.
(6) Creditors plan to ringfence Greek economy if Tsipras refuses to give in Read more Yet when asked about their attitude to the EU itself, 76% of Greeks said they mistrusted it.
(7) Some said the Taliban had been quick to claim responsibility for the attack, explaining the group wanted to sow mistrust between foreign forces and the Afghan police.
(8) Especially with these patients an attitude of mistrust makes verbal access difficult.
(9) And you look at someone like Adrian Peterson with the deep, haunting self-mistrust of knowing that he probably learned all his lessons from a beating too, and despite millions of dollars and every opportunity in the world, when he reached for a tool, the only one he thought to grab was a stick.
(10) At least one-third of it will be loans, increasing unfair debts channelled through the undemocratic and mistrusted World Bank."
(11) France was already deeply mistrustful of its political class.
(12) Advocates of the initiative believe it could break the logjam of mistrust between residents and the airline industry.
(13) There is relief in South Korea that people who have heard little or nothing about their loved ones will at last meet, and that the North's threats and warlike rhetoric have died down, but there is also wariness and deep mistrust.
(14) Berlusconi is deeply mistrusted in the markets and Grillo wants a referendum on whether Italy should quit the euro.
(15) Tony Blair's effortless ability to enrage his many critics, especially on the left, was evident again when he popped up on BBC Radio 4's Today programme to insist that MPs' rejection of military action against Syria was not directly linked to the legacy of mistrust he bequeathed over the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
(16) But it will not be able to quell public anger and mistrust over the matter.” The investigation into the 1MDB scandal is ongoing, with the commission also heading a probe into SRC International, a former 1MDB subsidiary also identified as depositing funds into the prime minister’s accounts.
(17) British commentators, famously, do not nurture stars; they mistrust the able and reserve especial snootiness for the multi-able, as if to be a good all-rounder is, yet, to be a master of none.
(18) But western mistrust of Putin has soared over the past year, with the result that there was no euphoria over the pact.
(19) Ignoring people’s history and distorting their stories only serves to increase misunderstanding and mistrust when, for all our sakes, we should be doing the opposite.
(20) The rally revealed the increasing impatience and mistrust that many Egyptians feel towards the military, which took over when Mubarak was forced out of office on 11 February.
Suspect
Definition:
(a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
(a.) Suspected; distrusted.
(a.) Suspicion.
(a.) One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
(v. t.) To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
(v. t.) To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
(v. t.) To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
(v. t.) To look up to; to respect.
(v. i.) To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
Example Sentences:
(1) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
(2) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
(3) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
(4) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.
(5) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(6) From these results, it can be suspected that the motor fibres are more vulnerable during aging.
(7) Fibreoptic bronchoscopy should be undertaken in patients suspected of having a pulmonary complication of AIDS, even if the chest radiograph is normal.
(8) Fifteen patients suspected to have Morton's neuroma were examined by computed tomography, which revealed the neuroma in seven cases.
(9) Proven necrotizing enterocolitis was seen in eight infants and was suspected in eight others.
(10) Persistence of hypercalcaemia combined with an increase in tubular reabsorption of calcium in response to cellulose phosphate may be of diagnostic value in suspected primary hyperparathyroidism.
(11) An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with multiple biopsies was performed in 19 children suspected of Crohn disease (CD) who had also undergone X-ray investigations and colonoscopy with multiple biopsies.
(12) Bartter's syndrome was suspected because of the features of the hypokalemia, hyperaldosteronism, hyperreninemia, increased concentration of plasma angiotensin I & II, the defect in distal fractional reabsorption of chloride and normotension.
(13) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
(14) The initial screening failed to detect sickle cell anemia in 4 infants, but the hemoglobinopathy in 3 of these infants was diagnosed correctly by routine retesting of those with suspected sickle cell trait.
(15) Seventy-one patients with 80 lower limbs clinically suspected of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) were investigated by both Doppler ultrasound and venography.
(16) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
(17) We correlated the MRI report and arthroscopic findings of 18 patients with suspected meniscal or ligament injury.
(18) Forty-six percent of the plain abdominal radiographs were suspected for cecal volvulus, but only 17 percent were diagnostic.
(19) An infectious etiology should be suspected in cases of necrotizing scleritis associated with a purulent discharge, and appropriate smears and cultures should be obtained.
(20) As someone who worked in Washington DC in media activities, I often suspect that different standards in reporting are applied to African governments.