distrust vs mistrust
Definitions
verb
- regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
noun
- doubt about someone's honesty
- the trait of not trusting others
Examples
Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.
There were heavily armed security forces on every street corner and there was a great deal of distrust and suspicion.
Oddly, we have reached the stage where there might still be a singular vision, but too often it is being micro-managed at executive level to the point of blandness and is often hobbled by an unhealthy mix at executive-committee stage of half-understood notions of political correctness tied to an essential distrust of viewers 'intelligence.
Definitions
verb
- regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
noun
- doubt about someone's honesty
- the trait of not trusting others
Examples
He had a deep mistrust of the legal profession.
However, the measure intended to foster democracy will result in all three party leaders imposing a three-line whip on their respective MPs – a move hardly likely to ease the public's mistrust of Parliament.
All this mysticism promoted a general mistrust of alchemists.
