mistrusting
present participle ofmistrust
mistrust
verb[T]
uk/ˌmɪsˈtrʌst/us/ˌmɪsˈtrʌst/to havedoubtsabout thehonestyorabilitiesof someone:
I've always mistrustedpoliticians.
Synonyms
distrust
suspect
Opposite
trust
Trusting and not trusting
- (you can) depend on/upon itidiom
- accept/takesomethingon faithidiom
- bank
- bank onsomeone/something
- believe
- believe insomething
- distrustful
- faith
- have faith!idiom
- I wouldn't trustsomeoneas far as I could throwthemidiom
- keep faith withsomething/someoneidiom
- lean
- non-confidence
- not trustsomeonean/one inchidiom
- put/placeyourfaith insomething/someoneidiom
- reliance
- reliant
- turn tosomeone/something
- untrustworthiness
- untrustworthy
Examplesofmistrusting
mistrusting
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The second technique is knowledge authentication, a family of cryptographic protocols that allowmistrustingparties to mutually compare information without actually revealing the information.
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Likewise, teachers could be helped to see that patterns of resistance originate frommistrustingthe adult.
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I do not think it is quite so much a question ofmistrustingthem as the fact that we realise what their motives are.
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It is not a question ofmistrustingthe countryside bodies.
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There is a set of politicians which thinks that one cannot live as a country without either detesting ormistrustingother countries.
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He had a few things to say the other day aboutmistrustingconverts.
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It is not a question of the ability of the societies that seek this further say, to manage the business: it is a question ofmistrustingthem.
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I assure my noble friend that that is no good reason formistrustingtelevision or for feeling that somehow it conveys a distorted picture of the reality.
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Finally, heavy television watchers are moremistrustingof people than light or medium television viewers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.From then on, he is fearful andmistrustingof her.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Included in the terms was an armistice which neither side,mistrustingthe other's intentions, fully intended to respect.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Banco,mistrustingthe witches, is horrified to find that they have spoken the truth.
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- dear-money-policy
- dearness
- dearness allowance
- dearness-allowance
- dearth
- dearth of information
- dear wife
- death
- deathbed
- death benefit
- death-benefit
- death camp
- death-camp
- death cap
- death-cap
- death certificate
- death-certificate
- death chamber
- death-defying
- death-defying
- death duty
- death-duty
- death futures
- death-futures
- death grant