Definition of Distrust

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Distrust

To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.

Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc.

Suspicion of evil designs.

State of being suspected; loss of trust.

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Distrust Quotations

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin Franklin

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
Ernest Holmes

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo Machiavelli

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
Tennessee Williams

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Distrust Translations

distrust in Italian is diffidenza
distrust in Norwegian is mistillit, mistro
distrust in Spanish is desconfianza, escepticismo
distrust in Swedish is misstro, tvivel

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