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
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin Franklin
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
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
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
James Russell Lowell
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
Henry L. Stimson
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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